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Artist Cathy Abramson
Chevy Chase, Maryland
Merigold
Oil on Canvas
Artist Statement
My husband and I were on a road trip to Jazz Festival in New Orleans and stopped in Merigold, Mississippi to find a mostly-deserted, small, southern town with one still-functioning juke joint, Po’ Monkey’s and McCarty’s Pottery that once used clay from William Faulkner’s property. This painting depicts a shop window that preserved much about the town and its layered history. The window seals off the past in a time capsule. The bridal doll peers back at the viewer from an unreachable distance surrounded by icons of her day, a teapot, beer and liquor bottles, a Diet Rite Cola bottle and a Virginia Slims sign. The hand painted sign below has peeled and faded and beckons you into a grocery with its once-modern tile facade. Is Merigold the name of the town or is it the bridal doll? Or, as in Faulkner’s writings, are place and name and history identical?
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