In The Dream House, by Carmen Maria Machado
"Imprint of Silence is a photographic meditation on censorship and erasure. Smoke drifts through the work like memory made visible—an echo of voices pressed into silence, of books burned or buried for daring to imagine too freely. In many pieces, the shapes of the smoke mirror the storylines of banned and challenged books, their narratives briefly re-formed in air before dissolving. Some works within the series gather under the titles that begin with F451, a nod to Bradbury’s fire temperature and the sheer quantity of pages consigned to ash. Others form The Library, where smoke takes on the contours of specific stories—Maya Angelou, Art Spiegelman, Fitzgerald—authors whose words have been struck from shelves for addressing race, memory, or desire. These fragments function as both elegy and flame—mourning what is lost while asserting resilience. The history of suppression is long: the 1938 Nazi Degenerate Art exhibition, Tennessee’s removal of Maus, and the persistent silencing of voices across centuries. Today, as polarization deepens and fear cloaks itself in virtue, the smoke rises again. Imprint of Silence insists that ideas cannot be buried; they return, shimmering like smoke in the light." - Carol Inez Charney
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