An Asylum for Marie Antoinette on the Susquehanna

collage 14”h, 22”w

French Azilum was a planned village in Bradford County, Pennsylvania, built as a refuge for French Monarchists fleeing the French Revolution and slave uprisings in Saint-Domingue (now Haiti).  According to legend, Marie Antoinette and her two surviving children were to settle there. I combined photos of discarded farm equipment overlaid with images of Versailles and the deposed monarch to illustrate the environment she would inhabit, anachronistically.

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