The Treaty of Hopewell
This work manifests courtesy of the imagined tensions between peoples involved in the repetitive signing of three distinct boundary documents in US history named, The Treaty of Hopewell, 1785-6 and later referred to as, Talking Leaves.
The post-industrial materials contained here, incite questions brought from the past. What is the relationship between peoples who are both codependent and volatile towards one another? In facing their joint yet disparate histories, does unrealized potential still exist?
It is balanced coins, a wish re-ordered. swallowed.
It looks for the horizon line and holding it in view, keeps chaos at arms length.
Is romance lost between the real and the imagined
–or is it found, again –on its back?
The post-industrial materials contained here, incite questions brought from the past. What is the relationship between peoples who are both codependent and volatile towards one another? In facing their joint yet disparate histories, does unrealized potential still exist?
It is balanced coins, a wish re-ordered. swallowed.
It looks for the horizon line and holding it in view, keeps chaos at arms length.
Is romance lost between the real and the imagined
–or is it found, again –on its back?
