Altered - An Armistice Art & Writing Workshop
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Altered Series.Altered (2019) is a collaborative body of work created with veterans from the About Face Community. Using a technique I developed while working on my Shadow Boxes Series, I photograph each veteran and immediately print their portrait onto Pictorico paper. The veterans then alter their own images—marking, scratching, or transforming them however they choose to best express their emotions and experiences.
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Altered: The Transmutation Process
This work uses art to transmute difficult experiences into something external, preventing them from festering within. Military and war experiences require processing—this reflects ancient wisdom lost in modern military culture. Warrior stories aren't meant to be carried alone, but shared by the community that sends them to war. Through connection, community, and art, this process helps veterans understand their experiences and combat the isolation that can lead to alienation and suicide. If we're not prepared to listen and help transmute veterans' stories, we fail to honor them. The work displayed here includes both the digital prints and the original altered Pictorico pieces, showing the veterans' direct intervention on their own portraits.
Backing track by Steve Brownlee (featured veteran) and Jay Glaspy (veteran, not featured in video)
This work uses art to transmute difficult experiences into something external, preventing them from festering within. Military and war experiences require processing—this reflects ancient wisdom lost in modern military culture. Warrior stories aren't meant to be carried alone, but shared by the community that sends them to war. Through connection, community, and art, this process helps veterans understand their experiences and combat the isolation that can lead to alienation and suicide. If we're not prepared to listen and help transmute veterans' stories, we fail to honor them. The work displayed here includes both the digital prints and the original altered Pictorico pieces, showing the veterans' direct intervention on their own portraits.
Backing track by Steve Brownlee (featured veteran) and Jay Glaspy (veteran, not featured in video)
