Brooke Ripley, I'm Sorry We Turned Your Home Into A Parking Lot
oil on canvas, 42.5" x 87.5" x 2"
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The artist on the piece: “This work is a meditation of a typical midwestern environment, inspired by an abandoned parking lot that I found. Working from Manifest Destiny forward, I used the layering in this painting to walk myself through the imagery that was in front of me, what it once was, how the ideologies of Manifest Destiny, Preservationism, Industrialization, and Conservationism determined how this land would be altered throughout history, and what the reclamation of the land post hence would look like.”
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Brooke Ripley
“I am an artist of the Anthropocene- my work examines the emergence of the Anthropocene epoch and its relationship with the distortion of the landscape as it relates to the development of the environment.
As I work, I layer the paint in such a way that I may walk myself through the environment I see in front of me, what it once was, and what it could be.
My process mirrors the alteration of the environment, thus allowing me to meditate on the ways in which we have encroached upon the earth and vice versa. In doing so, I relate the perpetual alteration of the environment to the perpetual alteration of history. For, as I reflect on historiography and examine the emergence of the Anthropocene epoch, I find that they inform and contextualize one another.”
