#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 aimed to harvest life grown from a city known for its loss using organic community engagement.
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. 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 human spirit is and will always be.
As they entered the exhibition, Residents of Tulsa walked from installations accompanied by QR codes that took them to a recording that guided them to imagine 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 bury pain and grow hope they imagined.
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.