From Yonder Wooded Hill
by Riley Goodman
An exploration of folklore, family, and place
From Yonder Wooded Hill investigates what we choose to remember versus what chooses to remember us. Based in the Patapsco River Valley of Maryland and expanding to his ancestral West Virginia and North Carolina, Riley Goodman brings to life the customs and legends on which he was raised to weave a tale as old as the hills.
Artist Biography
Riley Goodman, raised in the Patapsco River Valley of Maryland, inquires folklore, American history, and humankind's relationship with the environments they inhabit in an effort to understand what endures, and subsequently how this endurance exists in relation to his own presence in the canon. Goodman juxtaposes archival imagery and material from his personal collections of artifact and ephemera with the visual interpretation of researched, often folk-based, storytelling. When these elements combine, the resulting work forms a narrative that rather than noting a specific period, creates an ever-occurring amalgamation of time. By establishing this crafted world, Goodman invites the viewer to question the tenets of authenticity, leaving the idea of 'historical truth' in an undisclosed middle ground. Goodman’s work has appeared in Time, Vice, and Oxford American, among other outlets.
From Yonder Wooded Hill By Riley Goodman
From Yonder Wooded Hill By Riley Goodman
As an exploration of folklore, family, and place, From Yonder Wooded Hill investigates what we choose to remember versus what chooses to remember us. Based in the Patapsco River Valley of Maryland and expanding to his ancestral West Virginia and North Carolina, Riley Goodman brings to life the customs and legends on which he was raised to weave a tale as old as the hills.
Released 2022
66 color plates, 35 archival photographs
128 pages
Suede Hardcover
8.75" x 12.5"
First Edition
ISBN 978-1-7348312-6-9