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"American Exceptionalism" by Nancy Richards Farese
"American Exceptionalism" by Nancy Richards Farese
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Archival pigment print
24" x 16"
Raised in Georgia on a story of America as a beacon of freedom and dignity, I watched that story unravel in 2025 as the political and social fabric tore in ways I never anticipated. This image, American Exceptionalism, is part of a larger installation, Mapping Dissonance: America 2025, A Visual Journal of an Extraordinary Year. It was a year when I turned inward, as the maps I'd relied on—technological, cultural, political—became unrecognizable. Drawing on the quilting traditions of my Southern upbringing, I began stitching together media fragments, erasures, and layered compositions into a form of collage—contemporary quilts—that could hold ambiguity and rupture at once. The work is a record of attention, an act of looking closely rather than looking away, and a belief that naming what has broken is itself a step toward remembering who we came from. And beginning to ask…what happens next?
