Thanks to the curators and installers at ArtsWestchester for featuring works from the Anna Pierrepont Series in 'Who Writes History?'
I include the guest curator, Randy Williams' comments on my work that was installed.
We are confronted with public monuments daily. We view some with committed visions and some with omitted visions. Howard Skrill's plein-air monuments drawing is a record of an aesthetic souvenir altered by public sentiments. His drawing acknowledges both the monument and community members' feelings about the monument. The artist illustrates how the public can create a conversation with public monuments. There is certainly the view that the monument is being defaced, but there is also an argument that the act of public response is a statement of empowerment. Howard Skrill's Plein-Air Drawing of a Monument teeters on ambiguity. He recognizes both the historical object as well as the contemporary response to the historical monument. He offers his viewer a lens through which to view this object from the past in discussion with voices from the present. The contemporary musings by the public have added a new chapter to the story of this monument.
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