Jeffrey Meris

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 This is a maquette of a two-venue installation created for Prospect 6, which takes up a call-and-response tradition alive in African diasporic cultures to connect New Orleans  with his childhood home of Nassau in the  Bahamas. Titled together as Our Moons  Shine, For All the Worlds to See (2024), Meris projected beaming light to emit “I am a  possibility” in Morse Code from the top of the  old Louisiana Power & Light Building, nestled  on the edge of the Mississippi River in Algiers  Point, and “I am a promise” from atop the  harbor-facing Fort Charlotte in Nassau