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Chasing Napalm (work-in-progress)
Fourth Chemical Unit In Arlington Night Fires Under the Japanese Magnolia No. 0238 Chemical Dusting, Imagined Sky / He Said : She Said
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Chasing Napalm sets out to reconstruct my father's memory as a military officer who transported napalm and mustard gas via the Liberty Ships and convoys of World War II. As I stitch together his images with mine, a chronicle begins to unfold -- Notions of migration and transmigration, romanticized ideas of being the nomad; war, hatred, displacement, and confusion remain seductively melancholic and nostalgic. My fictions twist and distort his truths until I find an opening to construct a visual history, albeit a fabricated memory, of the past. Through a combination of photographs, slide and video projections, and private performances, I am mapping this journey that will culminate in the seafaring voyage similar to the one he had taken from Nova Scotia to England with the US convoys of 1943. |
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