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Phoenix Color Corp.
Distance: 2.8 Mi540 Western Maryland Pkwy
21740 Hagerstown -
Second Star to the Right
Distance: 56.5 Mi607 Orchard Way
20904-6229 Silver Spring -
J.M. Gaske Inc
Distance: 55.6 Mi9041 Chevrolet Dr
21042-4019 Ellicott City -
Unique Art Design
Distance: 60.7 Mi9404 Chippenham Dr
20723-5967 Laurel -
Antique Book Appraisal Service
Distance: 64.2 Mi32 West 25th Street
21218 Baltimore
Description
ASSIMILATION Culture or the way in which we as human beings categorize difference amongst ourselves (color, beliefs, gender, etc) is my primary subject matter. Often we humans are caught between two cultures. When I was growing up, there was a vast difference between the culture inside the home (religious and Jewish) and outside the home (secular and not Jewish.) A satisfactory balance between the two was very difficult to establish. Take food for example. Would we eat what the outside culture ate? Would we eat as our mother, and her mother and her mother's mother ate? Would we break that chain eating as our friends ate? Each aspect of human activity became a conscious cultural decision. Each of these images deals with an aspect of this cultural difference. The