UNLV Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art
Las Vegas, Nevada
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MessageLance L. Smith
"When I'm With You (Angela)"
2017
Oil on canvas
Courtesy Bryan McCarthy.
These works were monumental in understanding how to equally express feelings of loss without forsaking or exploiting the sacredness of my connection with those who came before me.
This process revealed that the investigation of one’s past through image or memento is not just an act of sentimentality but a retracing of one's core to unearth messages of what has come before and what may come later.
- Created: 2017