New Exhibit

Unfortunately the snow storm cancelled our opening, but I have been working with Extending the Link and a documentary on immigrants and their changing definition of home.  The documentary called Bayt Jadeed compares the experiences of Somali immigrants to Minnesota with the experiences of Syrian migrants in Germany.  You can see the trailer here.

In the meantime I thought I would post some images of our exhibit. I drew the larger pencil images and Zoe Huot-link did the smaller ink drawings.

 

We had some problems with the adhesive, but eventually came up with a solution.  Zoe's images concentrate on the many peopole interviewed for the documentary.  My images focus on the experiences of the Syrian migrants who travelled to Germany and in particular Berlin.  The images are composites of press reports and photos that I took in 2015 and again in December of 2018.



My images show such experiences as escaping from a war zone, crossing large expanses of land and sea, leaving over-crowded boats,  the endless waiting as migrants got stuck at borders, and experiences in the new home.  I'm looking forward to the opening! ;-)