Palimpsests

—To scrape clean and use again—

These works consist of 25 years of salvaged drawings, sketches, photographs and personal documents such as birth certificates, marriage vows and household bills, from my flood damaged New Orleans home and combining them with xerox, ink and wax. Their archival qualities now suspended created a state of limbo from the surrounding chaos lapping my feet.

N.O. MAN'S LAND #1 - detail - John K. Lawson
N.O. MAN'S LAND #1 - John K. Lawson

N.O. MAN’S LAND

No Mans Land - Palimpsest
LEVEE BREACH

LEVEE BREACH

FIRE ON THE BAYOU

FIRE ON THE BAYOU

AFTER THE FLOOD

AFTER THE FLOOD

TRANCE

TRANCE

N.O. MAN'S LAND #2 - detail #1
N.O. MAN'S LAND #2 - detail #2
Questions and Answers
One String Guitar Henry
LIMBO
HORSES
PARADISE LOST I
PARADISE LOST
PARADISE LOST II - John K Lawson
LIMBO LAND