ALEJANDRO RICO-GOMEZ



Familiarities
Alejandro Rico-Gomez

...History’s imposing presence over the landscape shouldn’t be mistaken for stagnation. The contradiction of time is that for every year of progress, there’s a year of wear and erosion. The physical world and our memories of it are equally vulnerable to this process. Markers of time-passed-since can be seen across the rain beaten country, new blends into old. Just off to the side, in the extra space on the edges of sighing houses, against square fields, and between leaves on the end of lonely trees, you can see the markers of time in motion most clearly. This is the subject of the work. 

(Excerpt from Journal. Iowa City, Iowa, March 2021)

Photographs taken on long afternoons in central and western Iowa; 2020-2021.
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