Label Text: Sadé begins her process in Timeline Series with large-scale photographs of the industrial United States. She covers these images with tar and asphaltum, a natural substance historically used as a glue or water-proof coating. After these materials rest for several days, Sadé uses a solvent to scrape layers of tar away from the image. The photographic documentation of a fading manufacturing and shipping economy now appears rusted, sepia, aged.
Sadé works at a scale that makes the landscape immediately present. We might imagine ourselves on the edge of a boat on the Hudson River—the Muhheakantuck, the water that flows both ways—listening to the movement of cargo and making out a range of smoke stacks through a smoky haze. MH, 2018
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