Description
“FERGUSON, MO: The Broken Heart of America” (acrylic paint, oil/wax crayon, and pencil on heavy watercolor paper) is the inaugural work in Postcards to America, a series that disrupts the nostalgia of vintage postcard imagery to reveal overlooked histories and systemic inequities. Responding to the 2014 police killing of 18-year-old Michael Brown and the unrest that followed, the piece recasts Missouri’s slogan, “The Heart of America,” as a fractured symbol of a nation still contending with racial injustice. Layering idealized civic imagery with the realities exposed in Ferguson, the work asks viewers to look beyond familiar symbols of unity and confront the deeper, unresolved stories of the places we think we know.
