Posts tagged Evolution

July 12, 1887 The city of Mound Bayou, Mississippi was founded as an independent black community by formerly enslaved people led by Isaiah Montgomery. Montgomery led the town through the 1920s. The population according to the 2000 census is 2,100 and 98.4% African American, one of the largest African American majority populations in the country. (Source: Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History) I share this in hopes of reaching the #OWS stream… Change in the face of what seems impossible, is possible. Revolution isn’t always about destruction… sometimes you have to bravely go out there and create something NEW, as you imagine. This is a decade before Plessy Vs. Ferguson (legalizing segregation, making way for Jim Crow laws).I’m sure it wasn’t perfect, most likely dealt with some unsavory’s… but the place still exists today.

July 12, 1887 The city of Mound Bayou, Mississippi was founded as an independent black community by formerly enslaved people led by Isaiah Montgomery. Montgomery led the town through the 1920s. The population according to the 2000 census is 2,100 and 98.4% African American, one of the largest African American majority populations in the country. (Source: Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History)

I share this in hopes of reaching the #OWS stream… 

Change in the face of what seems impossible, is possible. Revolution isn’t always about destruction… sometimes you have to bravely go out there and create something NEW, as you imagine. This is a decade before Plessy Vs. Ferguson (legalizing segregation, making way for Jim Crow laws).

I’m sure it wasn’t perfect, most likely dealt with some unsavory’s… but the place still exists today.

My friend and collaborator-Visual Artist Ula Einstein deservedly mentioned on Hyperallergic… Her work is being shown in Australia, curated by Gavin Keeney. hyperallergic: #EventsThursday submission “Early Influences,” temporary installation, C-print ©Ula Einstein SHADOW-LANDS  a study of visual agency in art and architecture  April 18 - May 19 2012 - group exhibit. Curator: Gavin Keeney  Deakin University Exhibition Gallery, Geelong, Victoria, Australiaincludes my text based work with humble materials C-Prints from The Unwinding Destiny Project installation/ photography — an ongoing work initiated in 2008
My friend and collaborator-Visual Artist Ula Einstein deservedly mentioned on Hyperallergic… Her work is being shown in Australia, curated by Gavin Keeney.

hyperallergic:

#EventsThursday submission

“Early Influences,” temporary installation, C-print ©Ula Einstein

SHADOW-LANDS  a study of visual agency in art and architecture 
April 18 - May 19 2012 - group exhibit. Curator: Gavin Keeney 

Deakin University Exhibition Gallery, Geelong, Victoria, Australia
includes my text based work with humble materials C-Prints from The Unwinding Destiny Project installation/ photography — an ongoing work initiated in 2008

The Evolution of Agency

“…we can do things, we can change things… we can create things.”