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Sanpete Memorial: Erasure + Recovery
Conté crayon on mulberry paper and video
Many hundreds of pioneer/settler monuments have been installed across the state of Utah and beyond. This work brings the viewer into contact with several of these that were placed in public spaces across central Utah’s Sanpete Valley between 1938 and 1972. Those familiar with such monuments will recognize their common storytelling tropes: regional histories that begin with western colonial expansion; labor, sacrifice, and travail; the building of forts (their dimensions and dates) and establishment of military order; the (re)naming of local places; and the enclosure and accelerated conversion of these places into material resources.
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