these pieces are a meditation on western colonialism capitalism production of seeing events for privileged subjects on a mass scale. the foundation of these collages are made of brown corrugated cardboard, connoting labor. material such as was mass produced from trees, dye cut, and configurated into six sided boxes used for commercial transportation or personal storage. interwoven on top are four commercial postcards. each was created economically at small scale print shop distribution by hand or mail. postcards were used extensively for promotional purposes by cultural institutions, music clubs, and individual artists prior to the internet. the postcards mementoes for this project were collected between 1978 - 2016. rather than presenting the primary image on the front, the back of the cards are exposed, showing their typefaces, postal marks, and yellowing from glue affixed labels and scotch tape, making visible undercurrents of modernist abstract formal arrangement and austere color palette.

layered across the postcards are gold and black stones. these reference gold prospecting and coal mining, the prospector’s delirium for treasure and a new life. gold and black dust swirl cross the composition as a ghost of recurring truth of america. the corners of the cardboard are punctured and threaded with tassels made from two primary color themes: an array of cool blues and greens mark the 17th century colonies settled alongside coast waters. the other scheme is red, green, and black, colors of the african national congress, but also the contemporary colors of the liberation struggle in palestine. these are nations along waters edges that have been known by westerns powers as banks, either for their land, minerals, or labor. theses tassels wave freely from the edge of the collage, as the winds blow.

the circular beads shimmering as their facets catch light take on a liberatory trajectory across the compositions, at times extending beyond the bounding nature of cube.