Title: all american Artist: douglxss Series: under negotiation Medium: digital painting on screen File Type: .jpg Dimensions: 11520 x 6480px 1/1 -------- a commission for derek edws, one of three boys to a mother who emigrated from the philippines when she was 21 years old, looking for a better life in the united states. the diner, freeway overpass, and distant 'hollywood' create a dense lattice of american systems: mobility, consumption, labor, aspiration. three boys gather around a chess board. childhood here is not idealized; it is attentive, adaptive, and already negotiating complexity american progress is not linear, it is practiced daily, in small acts, from the individuals that continue to believe in what it is and what it can be.