Checkpoint Charlie
Photograph
Checkpoint Charlie
From Berlin
2015
Inkjet print with hand-stitching
Paper: 7 × 9 in. (17.8 × 22.9 cm)
Frame: 12 × 14 in. (30.5 × 35.6 cm)
Purchase with funds from the Charina Foundation, 2017
2017.0018.0002
Inscriptions [Gallery label applied to frame verso]
TextDiane Meyer uses her own personal photographs as raw material for art. Time Spent That Might Otherwise Be Forgotten began with her family snapshots, and Berlin, with photographs she made in Germany depicting places where the Berlin Wall used to exist. She embroidered over key details, such as faces and landmarks, obscuring the very features that lend the photographs their potency. In the contemporary world, where digital images reign, the stitches suggest pixelation, but they also mark sites where memories adhere, proclaiming as reality the associated visual recollections.
