To See Is To Forget
Jacob Dowling Gallery, 2022
These drawings on plastered canvas are based on the Noxubee County Library in Macon, Mississippi, near my grandfather's birthplace. Built as a jail and later transformed into a library, the gallows still work, the executioner’s hook still hangs. The books sit behind walls of bars. It is a library in the carcass of a prison, with all the beauty and terror that entails. These drawings spring from this place, and my unusual relationship to it.
The Reading Room, 48" x 36"
The Reference Section, 36" x 36"
Nonfiction, 16" x 20"
The Quiet Room, 24" x 24"
The DVD Attic, 16" x 20"
View From the Gallows, 24" x 24"
On the Hanging Balcony, 16" x 20"
The Children's Section, 16" x 20"
The Fiction Section, 9" x 12"