Our History Was Never Beautiful
A body of work amalgamating and digitally rewriting versions of U.S. presidents, landscape paintings and other media reflecting the supposed ‘American Values’ including but not limited to topics of: manifest destiny, patriotism, the Invisible Hand and other destructive ideologies. The subtext indicates the dissociation between our optical representations of the past, the fragmentation of the present and the erasure of embedded contexts of time and the dissolution of U.S. trust in the American Dream, a manufactured vision of ideals that conferred a virtual experience of success and material obtainment at the cost of others.
| Image | Title | # | Wiki Link | Year Created | Physical Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | The Grand Inquisitor [Old_Hickory] | 7 | Andrew Jackson | 2015 (October) | 40in x 40in Digital Print on Canvas |
 | Teflon [The_Comeback_Kid] | 42 | Bill Clinton | 2016 (February) | 40in x 40in Digital Print on Canvas |
 | The Light Has Gone [The_Lion] | 26 | Theodore Roosevelt | 2016 (February) | 40in x 40in Digital Print on Canvas |
 | The Holographic Empire [Sir_Veto] | 17 | Andrew Johnson | 2016 (March) | 40in x 40in Digital Print on Canvas |
 | It Was Never Ours [The_Human_Iceberg] | 23 | Benjamin Harrison | 2016 (November) | 40in x 40in Digital Print on Canvas |
 | Red Fox [Little_Magician] | 8 | Martin Van Buren | 2016 (November) | 40in x 40in Digital Print on Canvas |
 | Endgame Theory [Duckpin] | 34 | Dwight D. Eisenhower | 2016 (November) | 40in x 40in Digital Print on Canvas |
 | Iced Milk [O.R.A.R.] | 12 | Zachary Taylor | 2016 (November) | 40in x 40in Digital Print on Canvas |
 | S_I [The Phrasemaker] | 28 | Woodrow Wilson | 2016 (November) | 40in x 40in Digital Print on Canvas |