Bruce Wahl

My father lives in a town I can not get lost in. He still inhabits my childhood home, surrounded by a collection of objects and photographs arrayed as shrines to his American Dream. Both the town and the man seem alien to me now. This village could be anywhere in New England, it is generic in its quirkiness. Chock full of its own altars to cultural ideas and heavy with an American artifice of place. Photographs, much like memories, degrade over time but still reach for a truth. This is not a perfect objective truth, but a personal one both conflicted and contradictory, this is America after all.

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Shrine of Accomplishments No.1, Archival Pigment Print 16×20
Sausage Fest (Wurst Party Ever), Archival Pigment Print 16×20
For the birds, Archival Pigment Print 16×20
3 Knots to Nowhere, Archival Pigment Print 16×20
The French Connection, Archival Pigment Print 16×20
Fancy Feast, Archival Pigment Print 16×20
So Many (Artifical Wind), Archival Pigment Print 16×20
Hummel Schrein, Archival Pigment Print 16×20
Innocence Preserved, Archival Pigment Print 16×20
Just something in my Eye, Archival Pigment Print 16×20

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