Carol Inez Charney

"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 forms of the smoke mirror the storylines of banned and challenged books, their narratives briefly reassembled in air before fading away. Some works appear under the title F451, referencing Bradbury’s fire temperature and the countless pages reduced to ash. These images often suggest individual book spines, their abstracted interiors reflecting both destruction and the endurance of ideas. Others comprise The Library, where smoke rises into the towering spines of countless books—an imagined archive of stories once banned or challenged. Among them are traces of writers such as Maya Angelou, Art Spiegelman, and F. Scott Fitzgerald, alongside the many other voices that have faced suppression. Together, these works reflect both the scale of loss and the persistence of imagination. From the Nazi Degenerate Art exhibition to the banning of texts across history, and continuing to recent book bans, the silencing of creative expression has taken many forms. Imprint of Silence reminds us that ideas cannot be erased; they rise and fade like smoke, yet their traces linger." - Carol Inez Charney

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