This collage was created by physically manipulating and juxtaposing the artist’s personal photographs. After hand-cutting and gluing, the collage was digitally adjusted and enlarged to create the final image. The work is a meditation on the atemporal, equivocal nature of memory and how the present is parsed through the frame of the past.

Appalachian Post combines scenes in front of the James A. Farley post office (now part of Moynihan Station) in Manhattan with a back-country road through Catawba Valley in southwestern Virginia. Traveling home at the holidays, these two scenes marked the beginning and end of each journey.