People and Places Become One Another
(title excerpted from Martin Luther King's Chicago Freedom Movement Rally Speech on July 10, 1966 at Soldier Field, Chicago)
People and Places Become One Another is a brown mirror which reveals laser cut text from a Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Chicago Freedom Movement Rally Speech in Chicago on July 10, 1966, "Our power is in our unity, the force of our souls, and the determination of our bodies…" This piece was presented with the installation, "I Look For These Past Hands," at an artist-run home gallery on Chicago's West Side. The work is a response to the displacement of, and violence against, black and brown bodies in the housing struggles in Chicago in the 1960s, and the divisions that continue to exist between neighborhoods. The reflective surface invites the viewer to consider the power we have individually and collectively to bridge the divide.
