These photographs document the vernacular museology of everyday American life — the art ordinary people choose to hang on their walls as declarations of aspiration, memory, and belonging. Each image functions as a portrait without figures, where mass-produced landscapes, family photographs, and decorative objects become inadvertent autobiographies of taste, class, and the desire for meaning within domestic space. The work suggests that civilization's true signature is not found in institutions but in these quiet, unexamined choices: the ways we attempt to dignify our walls and, by extension, ourselves.

Civilization Signatures