how well can you know someone you’ve never met? can you construct an identity of a person through the images they take, they collect; can you decipher their values, their psyche, their inner mind? i started collecting robert’s flickr photos, trying to understand and unravel this man who is seemingly obsessed with the iconography of war, the re-enactment of battles, a frequent attender of battle re-enactments and war ceremonies, propelling racist legacies and histories, facing these memories head-on, in remembrance of, to never forget about these atrocaties, or celebrating them?

i don’t know whether i’ll paint these images, or keep archiving them,  or what i’ll do with them at all, but they’re here for you to see, to draw your own conclusions.