CASTELLI GALLERY _ LOS ANGELES

The Memorandum serves as a vital record of conflict, mapping the intersection of personal memory and systemic violence. The work operates as a physical ledger—analogous to a child’s carving in a tree—where early inscriptions of hope are eventually overtaken by the scars of lived experience. Viewed from a detached, elevated perspective, the machinery of war and the struggle for dominance are stripped of their specifics, revealing a singular, repeating topography. By observing the theater of conflict in its entirety, the exhibition exposes the broader patterns of power that govern human history. It functions as a generational warning, preserving the collective memory of fear to ensure the patterns of the past remain visible as a deterrent for the future.