James Baroz
Dirt Nap (Dad), 2024
Archival inkjet print
26 ½” X 21”
$800
The cowboy hat is a tangible artifact passed down bridging a relationship between a father and son. In this photograph the hat becomes a proxy for my grandfather’s identity, imbued with his absence yet worn by someone who was shaped by that. By wearing the hat, my dad embodies the version of masculinity tied to his father’s legacy. The cowboy archetype often symbolizes independence and self-reliance. The hat evokes a mythologized version of him, representing inherited traits, and establishing expectations of the unsolved tensions around the weight of legacy and masculinity. This object and representation depict how memory and loss are physically carried forward. How objects carry these memories and how relationships are shaped by what is both given and withheld.
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