Jonathan Mark Jackson: Points of Entry
Jonathan Mark Jackson is a student currently enrolled at Amherst College, pursuing a Bachelors of Art degree within the Art & The History of Art department. Jackson plans to expand on his previous series, The House Servant’s Directory, which embodied Robert Roberts, a distant relative of Jackson’s, and the author of a book of the same title published in 1827.
This expansion into his proposed project, Points of Entry, will shift his work from the interior lived archive of the home into the landscape. Jackson is interested in combining archival sources, images of the landscape that bore witness to his ancestor’s actions, and images and writing of his own personhood to collapse and merge multiple timelines. He will be visiting multiple sites throughout the Northeast where his paternal ancestors lived and worked as a means of exploring the question, “How do we visualize and track the production of history, in our families, communities, and nation?”
