2021
“and also with you” is a multi-platform project which creates documentaries, paintings, interactive projections, and immersive installations based on the personal stories of refugees and immigrants.
In May I visited Casa Marianella in Texas to begin the documentary filming. In September, I will be visiting CAFEMIN in Mexico City and will be interviewing refugees there with founder Sister Magdalena Silva.
One documentary iteration will act as immersive stand-alone profiles in a gallery setting. Another documentary will showcase the need for shelter and (very few) organizations that provide proactive shelter (not prison or detention centers) for refugees and immigrants.
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“and also with you 12 ” man carrying child; oil on panel, 12 x12, 2021
July 16th 2021-August 13th 2021 The Man from Eritrea
EV Gallery 621 East 11th Street NYC 10009
24 hours a day projection of a word for word conversation I had with a refugee from Eritrea.
This is accompanied by interactive projections as well as paintings.
To be shown in the storefront window of EV Gallery on July 16th 2021-August 13th 2021
OPENING Thursday, August 5th, 6-9pm
This opening includes a public lecture by a scholar on refugee law.
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November 1 2021– December 1 2021
Solo show EV Gallery “SKY”
1: immersive projections of refugees and immigrant profiles and stories.
2. interactive/motion-activated projection of poems on paintings on the 7 children who died after being separated from their parents and taken into US immigration custody.
Movement in front of oil paintings of the border wall will generate a projection of a poem, one line over each painting. Here is one of the poems I wrote that will be projected, one line on 7 paintings:
shadow in duststorms/ calling each other’s names / I no longer feel the world /my hands have gone with you /your father and I move room to room /the sounds outside come in as flames /god of my heart sleep while I hold you
3. A motion-activated projection of words of welcome on paintings of people waiting at the border
Women and children in line at the border .watercolor and gouache on paper 14 x17 2021
4. As you walk along a blank wall, a large projection of the US/Mexico Border Wall appears alongside you. But the wall disintegrates with any opposite motion (ie: a sweep of your arm in the opposite direction)
