#agardennotagraveyard
#agradennota graveyard
An organic community engagement and exhibition that harvests life from the garden of a community known for a massacre.
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This counter-narrative incubator and community exhibition of large scale photography, visual poems, and audio-narratives that harvests life grown from a city known for its loss. Tulsa is not an unmarked grave for lives lost and broken. Tulsa is a garden. Gardens organically process dung and decay in the soil just long enough to fertilize new life. An organic community engagement and exhibition that harvests life from the garden of a community known for a massacre. Gardens organically process dung and decay in the soil just long enough to fertilize new life. Although painful and even sinful, the death story of 1921 is a means to the end of a new narrative. This life-baring tale is about the fire-proof and impenetrable force the hu- man spirit is and will always be. Tulsa is not an unmarked grave for lives lost and broken.
Installation: Reclaimed Mirrors, Video Installations, and Found Object Sculpture
The Greenwood Gallery Three: Cleat Suspended Mirrors Embedded into a 144 inch x 144inch Images 2020
Residents shared graveyard stories and re-narrated them with garden possibility!
Residents of tulsa walked from installatiuon of large images to installation hitting QR codes that took them to a recording that guided them to tell tell stories of hope where there are stories of pain.
At the end of the journey people came to a garden that was fabricated in the center of the exhibition to plant daffodil seeds as a way to burry pain and grow hope.