Land/Marks of Home, a solo exhibition of ongoing work by Miami alum, Whitney Lea Sage '08, uses the language of drawing and painting to reflect upon themes of memory, destruction, homesickness and loss through the language of landscape and the home. Sage, a native of southeastern Michigan, focuses her meticulous attention on the rapidly disappearing homescapes and communities of the once-sprawling neighborhoods of Detroit and nearby Highland Park. While conditions of foreclosure, disenfranchisement and outmigration are being experienced in communities nationwide, the region has experienced unparalleled population loss and soaring home vacancy rates resulting in the demolition of tens of thousands of homes and thousands more still on the horizon. Through focusing on the familiar site of the home, Land/Marks of Home seeks to create open dialog about challenging and uncomfortable histories, to leverage empathy to examine the lenses through which communities view and represent one another and to ultimately knit together the fates of the viewer and the viewed through our shared protective impulses for the people and places we love.