Created in 2018 and 2020, Deborah Willis’ series of photographs, Meditation On Joan Baez’s Civil War, Sundays in Harlem and the Clothesline Series, are timely visual frameworks for understanding America’s past, present and future. In these works, Willis captures a past collective memory of conflict that reflects the present day, where the contemporary American political climate holds up a grim resemblance to the ills that gave rise to the Civil War.