darryl lauster
Thinking about biography in relation to history, I focused on my grandfather's life to create this body of work titled "The Newburgh Papers" that returned to drawing and writing in a more conventional manner. After researching the squadrons to which he was attached in the Vietnam War, I hand wrote letters to dead soldiers as a way of connecting with him through them, implying my belief that they would somehow be able to read them across time, place and the physical world itself.