Political Art as Kitch

 
It makes for bad art, but Kitch is irresistible.
 
It’s a new year and a new president. All that hard work paid off. What a relief.
 
 

Political Art Redux

Tomorrow is a new day.

Political Art–One Last Flag

 
Text and Images, Copyright, 2008, Quinta Scott, All Rights Reserved

Political Art–American Flag, National Cemetery Edition

  Graphically: Our National Cemeteries are compelling. We repeat the same tombstone repeated over and over in even rows.  
 
Because it is so compelling graphically, I started making photographs at the Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery as an exploration of geometry and light.  But, for every Memorial Day the Boy Scouts put flags out [...]

Political Art–American Flags, Louisiana Edition

 
In February 2007 I made a trip to Louisiana to make photographs of the coastal wetlands for my book, The Mississippi: a Visual Biography, which the University of Missouri Press will publish in June 2009.
 
It was a year and a half after Katrina and my third trip since the previous October. I would make two [...]