In order to describe present American identity I explore the past. Old broadsides and banners of our cultural history inspire my aesthetic. Rusted steel and weathered canvas allow room for American icons to become recollected perceptions and interpretations of the “now”. My work presents these remnants of the assimilated collective memory of culture, but do these constructs and concepts define identity? What happens when that connection is gone or lost in translation? My images and objects deal with these questions of identity defined or undefined by culture.