After The Rain

Appropriating fragile images from history, the newspapers or by using photographs he has taken himself, Chacona resurrects and recharges them by using wit, juxtaposition and by burning them onto durable materials.  His work attempts to balance two apparently conflicting attitudes towards objects and actions in time.  The first is that everything is fleeting -- love and hate, good and evil, pleasure and pain, life and death -- and that above everything, all is vanity.  The second attitude, the one that prevails, is that as ephemeral as these may be, memory and morality are important and worthy of our best, if frail efforts at preserving them.