Angels of the Empire. 2011-2024. (work in evolution)
"We no longer know the names of the birds here, how to speak to them by their personal names.
Once we knew everything in this lush promise."
-- Joy Harjo. A Map to the Next World. (2000).
...of all the tributaries that run together, which are remembered and which are obscured? Who named them and how did the naming itself do the work of conjuring power? Merely tracing the mutations of the country can’t restore what has been taken or destroyed; time’s river can’t flow backward. Yet the past gives force to present demands. It can burst the channels of monuments and history books..." -- Alicia Puglionesi, In Whose Ruins. (2022).
