The North American Landscape

In The North American Landscape (2013-2015), Jones draws from archives, oral history, and memory to question and wittingly refute the enduring legacies of the United States’ educational systems’ imaginary of so-called North America. Using irony to craft a counter archive, Jones’ serial documentation of nearly forty different plastic toy trees appropriates acts of control, displacement, erasure, and fakery to direct us to sovereign tribal lands. In his words, “The title for this body of work is in reference to photographer Edward Curtis’s early 20th century epic series of portraits and landscapes entitled ‘The North American Indian.’ I have culled through all of Curtis’s landscape photographs and used them as an archive resource in order to associate each tribe with the identified tree types of their land. I then gave the plastic toy trees titles that are in reference to these tribes.”

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Image:

Left - A Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Landscape, 2013, archival pigment print, 25 x 20 inches

Right - A Ute Landscape, 2013, archival pigment print, 25 x 20 inches