© 2021 Oscar Palacio
About the Project
“This book contains elegantly composed images depicting details of the landscapes we build, modify, occupy, and share. The images frame literal and incidental memorials that are presented as monuments, commemorating a fraught and often tragic national history.”
-Matt Coolidge, Founder/Director, The Center for Land Use Interpretation
“It is said that civilization started with the first man building a fence around his property and others accepting his claim. In American Places we see fences, physical and symbolic, behind which America seems to hide its history, so we need the brilliant eye of an outsider like Oscar Palacio to reveal those histories to us.”
-Theo Baart and Cary Markerink, artists
Erie Canal, Syracuse, NY, 2008