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FORGOTTeN eRA
by Rachelle Clark
Living in Portland with family in Montana, I am often traveling through open
countryside and desolate landscapes. It makes me nostalgic for the cotton fields and
hay bales I left behind in Alabama. The rusted farm equipment left on the side of
the road and the dusty dirt roads that lead off to back fields reminds me of a
simpler type of life; a life I often forget when caught up in the noise and traffic of
a city.
With the family farms becoming a thing of the past, these images become more poignant
to me. The customs and cultures that accompanied this style of life are becoming lost
arts as well: patchwork quilts and needlepoint, homemade jams and smoked trout, a game
of horseshoes and the sound of a fiddle. This project is to pay homage to this way
of life that many term "old fashioned", but I will always call "home".
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