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Joyce Lyon Remains of the Razed Hotel, Lake Huntington, NY II 1991 Oil stick on paper

The dialogue in the work involves both image and text. Some of the drawings are about places in Poland-the endless fields of barrack chimneys I saw that Birkenau, a mass grave in the woods near Rzeszow. Other drawings are about places I know more intimately. These drawings become meditations on experiences I do not-and can not-know at first hand. Place becomes a vehicle for the exploration of many kinds of knowing: one's own direct experience and its limitations, what can be intuited, what it is possible to learn at a distance, and what, finally, cannot be understood. -Lyon

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