The First 100+ Days Exhibition at SPACES. Cleveland, OH.
Curated by: Christina Vassalo, 2017
(Photographs by Jerry Mann, courtesy of SPACES)
Black-eyed Women was inspired by the Pulitzer Prize-Winning book, 'The Refugees' by Author Viet Thanh Nguyen, who recently spoke about the fear of refugees in the West. Two quotes from it capture the focus of this work:
“In a country where possessions counted for everything, we had no belongings except our stories.”
“Writing was entering into fog, feeling my way for a route from this work to the unearthly world of words, a route easier to find on some days than others”.
-- Viet Thanh Nguyen, Refugees (2017)