Old Country
2018
oil, ink, silk, and kozo paper, and canvas on linen, 48 x 48 in
The artist traces her Lebanese ancestry in this family tree where a postcard written from Chimera’s grandfather, Nash Ne Jame, to his only surviving brother after World War I, uses the term “old country.” WWI claimed five out of eight immediate family members, and while significantly traumatic to Ne Jame’s youth, his pre-American life was a subject he never discussed, leaving the artist to piece together a family history through documents and photographs.
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