Mical Moser - In Panama (Probably Grandpa)

Mical Moser - In Panama (Probably Grandpa)
  • Title: In Panama (Probably Grandpa)
  • Dimensions: 8
  • Materials: oil on panel
  • Primary Medium: oil
  • Year Created: 2010
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Artwork Description


I’m a painter and installation-maker in Brooklyn. My work revolves around the themes of place, reading, and memory. In this series, I am focusing on the artifacts I have from my grandparents, both of whom were Brooklynites. At the end of the 1920s, my grandfather was sent to Panama with the army and right before he left, he bought is first camera. This painting is of a photo he had, probably of him, probably in Panama, but I can’t say for sure. I have the camera too. It’s broken, sealed with tape, and this may explain the problem with the photo. How do we make memories and histories out of such artifacts? Why do we lean so heavily on photos to document the past? Is the photo a more revealing artifact than the flavor of a cookie made from my grandmother’s recipe? Or the texture of an afghan she knitted? Or even, is the photo a more revealing artifact than the camera itself? In a way, painting the image allowed me to try and blend the photo with the flavor of the cookie, with the afghan, with the tape on the camera.

Mical Moser

Mical Moser

I’m a painter and installation-maker in Brooklyn. My work revolves around the themes of place, reading, and memory. In this series, I am focusing on the artifacts I have from my grandparents, both of whom were Brooklynites. At the end of the 1920s, my grandfather was sent to Panama with the army and right before he left, he bought is first camera. This painting is of a photo he had, probably of him, probably in Panama, but I can’t say for sure. I have the camera too. It’s broken, sealed with tape, and this may explain the problem with the photo. How do we make memories and histories out of such artifacts? Why do we lean so heavily on photos to document the past? Is the photo a more revealing artifact than the flavor of a cookie made from my grandmother’s recipe? Or the texture of an afghan she knitted? Or even, is the photo a more revealing artifact than the camera itself? In a way, painting the image allowed me to try and blend the photo with the flavor of the cookie, with the afghan, with the tape on the camera.

Website: www.micalmoser.com/Site/I_am_NOT_my_dog.html

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