HERITAGE IS THE SEED OF THE FUTURE

Juxtaposed, two chains of historical associations manifest themselves: black and white. On one side, the official white history, with memorials carved and erected in marble by and to those who wrote it. On the other, the African American history, an ephemeral heritage surviving repeated obliterations. As in Charlottesville VA, home of the Founding Fathers, these monuments dedicated to their memory often stand as proof of a distorted idealism, the story of involuntary condition, in the shadow of an official historical narrative, and in light of political urgency. This series came into being on a research trip through the South of the United States, from Washington D.C. to Virginia, Maryland, the Carolinas, Georgia, Alabama, the Mississippi and Louisiana. The photographic eye travels as a wayfaring stranger investigating a different world: damp heat, endless forests, the swamps, plantations, grandeur, poverty, a history and heritage of cruel violence taking hostages on all sides.