Cheri Ibes

“The unending problem of growing old was not how he changed, but how things did.”
— Toni Morrison, Tar Baby (1981)

Artist Statement

Things change; sometimes dramatically. I am looking at contemporary culture retrospectively, assessing its legacy while still in its midst, imagining its ruins. I have chosen the commonplace as material—physical remains, detritus of compulsive consumption. The relentless obsolescing of things that once briefly consoled a nagging lust for newness constitutes a history no one has time to consider: merely an endless trail of vaguely familiar debris.