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“Deacon Samuel Chapin”
Giclee print 8×10”
@lindsaychapinphoto
Lindsay Chapin confronts the legacy of her ninth great-grandfather, Deacon Samuel Chapin — the so-called founder of Chicopee, Massachusetts — whose likeness became a symbol of the “American Spirit.” Through this photograph, she reckons with inherited colonial narratives and the sacredness of land, documenting one of many statues cast in his image. The work becomes both portrait and reckoning — a meditation on ancestry, power, and the uneasy weight of history that still stands.
“Deacon Samuel Chapin”
Giclee print 8×10”
@lindsaychapinphoto
Lindsay Chapin confronts the legacy of her ninth great-grandfather, Deacon Samuel Chapin — the so-called founder of Chicopee, Massachusetts — whose likeness became a symbol of the “American Spirit.” Through this photograph, she reckons with inherited colonial narratives and the sacredness of land, documenting one of many statues cast in his image. The work becomes both portrait and reckoning — a meditation on ancestry, power, and the uneasy weight of history that still stands.