Image from River Reveal (work in progress)
Paulette Myers-Rich

I see these fragments as cultural and temporal signifiers that can be “read,” much as words on a page can be read after earlier writing, once scraped away returns, becoming visible once again under certain environmental conditions.  Often, these “texts” can only be read symbolically, as their true meaning is lost, like a dead language. If I can locate a former resident, a surviving  native “speaker,” and walk through a place learning what was there, then I may recover memory enough that a story can be told, and a bit of history can be saved from oblivion, as many of these places are ordinary or on the margins where most people don’t go.

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