Over the last 6 years, Andres Gonzalez has visited the sites of school shootings, making photographs, interviewing individuals affected by these tragedies, and studying the massive collection of condolence items, and other ephemera, accumulating in State archives, university libraries, and local museums. The resulting work explores how we collectively process trauma, and the malleability of cultural memory.
November 20, 2018 | Virginia Quarterly Review
American Origami: From Columbine to Parkland, Reading the Relics of Grief
Moving between the poetic and the forensic, American Origami closely examines the epidemic of mass shootings in American schools.
December 07, 2018 | Meet the Journalist
Meet the Journalist: Andres Gonzalez
Andres Gonzalez investigates the epidemic of mass shootings in American schools, producing a body of work titled "American Origami."