marya alford

photography
works on paper
film
sound
installation
public works

From a current series of graphite drawings of different smoke clouds throughout history. Each drawing focuses on one
smoke cloud from a historic event, such as the Mt. St. Helens eruption, Challenger shuttle explosion, the first book burning
in Berlin... Each work is drawn from a reference photograph that remains of the event.

“January 28, 1986, Over the Atlantic”
Graphite on paper, 38.5 x 50", 2008.

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