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“Monument Eternal” deftly repurposes archival materials, such as programs from ashram services and vintage concert bills, alongside dreamy images of Turiya that exude divine consciousness, the way a church might display saints or priests.

This project invites viewers to consider what it means for a country to grow, and the advantages and disadvantages linked to that growth, by overlaying archival photographs from the 1940s-60s within current scenes.

To drive home the project’s intimacy, Macdonald carefully re-creates the couple’s New York apartment, the camera gliding across the space as we hear archival phone conversations.

Not that he’s got a dearth of it; he’s been creating nearly a “postcard” a day for 30 years, and now has thousands of carefully curated pieces in archival sleeved books.

The fabrics may have gotten an upgrade, the clothes were now archival instead of just old, but in every purchase I saw all the versions of myself that ever existed.