the hush harborer
Hush Harbor was a secluded gathering place where enslaved African Americans came to worship and express their religious individuality. This image is seen from the perspective of an older man, continuing the tradition of expressing his catholic faith now alone in a public space. As citizens walk by, paying no mind, he praises his ancestors for allowing him to be in the space to speak publicly and lovingly. With this image, I thought of the difference between African American Catholicism and white American Catholicism, one with passion and faith to find freedom, compared to the imperialistic motives of the other at the time of Hush Harbor.
"Out of sight, out of mind" pt 1 & 2
The title is based on the Americ(k)an societal and economic removal of unhoused and marginalized individuals, seeking to showcase how the removal is not just in action but in mind, as New York citizens pass by the hurt individual without helping. The 1st perspective is that of a passing individual, and the other is that of someone who really looks at a person in pain because of a democratic system that has abandoned him.
three fifths
A composition that shows three out of the five people (in focus; I know there are multiple people in the background, but they're out of focus in the service of the title) in some pain. The individual on the left is disabled, and two unhoused individuals are on the bench; while the two white Americ(k)ans are curious or on the phone, trying to survive the day, similar to the three-fifths compromise.
do you remember the tulsa massacre?
A flag flying in the air, with the title changing the perspective of looking at the Americ(k)an flag as a symbol of patriotic prowess to genocidal history in the Tulsa Massacre, where the death toll probably will never be closely marked due to the extremity of the event.
