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About Ritual and Ruin: “These photo collages depict an arcane netherworld set in the mid-19th century American South. Created in the realm of historical fiction, they weave together the disparate, war-ravaged lives of soldiers, civilians, slaves, women, children, and animals as they gather, in ritual and in ruin, to celebrate, glorify, exalt, and mourn.
In creating these portrait collages I combine elements from historical images with my own photography. Each piece contains approximately one hundred layers which are digitally sized, blended and collaged into a single, large scale image.” David Knox, New Orleans
The Passage (from the Portrait Collage series), 2020. Archival pigment print on aluminum. 40 x 30 in. Edition of 12.
The Unsacred Ascension of the Dead (from the Ritual and Ruin series), 2016. Archival pigment print on aluminum. 20 x 50 in. Edition of 12.
City Upon a Hill (from the Ritual and Ruin series), 2016. Archival pigment print on aluminum. On view at the Mississippi Museum of Art in the ongoing collection exhibition New Symphony of Time. 30 x 40 in. Edition of 12.