This photo collage is composed of hand torn photographs. The original photographs are from a series of images I took while exploring a trail in northern Georgia, named Ware Women Dell. The trail was created and maintained by the Civilian Conservation Corps stationed there in the 1930s-1940s. Along the trial are signs with photographs of this motley group of workers. How many of these men found liberation in these male only work groups and developed relationships with each other? I took many photographs of this photograph zooming in on specific coded gestures; a sly smile, a too close hand next to hand. I am surely inserting my own queer longing for more historical representation, but doesn't history always have a bit of personal speculation?
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