The Casino Archive documents generational mythology transmitted through a family restaurant connecting the small village life in Basilicata, Italy, to New Jersey. The project turns toward the wreckage of the past. Family communications are chaotic, stories contradict and shift across generations, yet everything centers around the Casino as a gathering place, labor site, and keeper of myths. Through collecting images, this archive preserves what has dissolved away.
The Casino Archive documents generational mythology transmitted through a family restaurant connecting the small village life in Basilicata, Italy, to New Jersey. The project turns toward the wreckage of the past. Family communications are chaotic, stories contradict and shift across generations, yet everything centers around the Casino as a gathering place, labor site, and keeper of myths. Through collecting images, this archive preserves what has dissolved away.