Timothy White

American Prosperity is a series of evocative mixed media panels about stumbled upon abandoned places. The pieces are made using photographic images combined with a variety of materials, from paint on wood or canvas to cast concrete colored with charcoal, stains and pastels. The resulting panels, each of them one of a kind, enlarge the mood evoked by an image and the memories of being in the place where the image was captured. The series, which began as a personal project and caught fire for me, explores a number of different themes: the unknown stories these buildings hold when seen from the perspective of a passer by, a sense of place, abandonment, and the question of where we are as a society.