Our Moons Shine, For All the World to See (study) 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 my childhood home of Nassau in the Bahamas. Titled together as Our Moons Shine, For All the Worlds to See (2024), I 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
Our Moons Shine, For All the World to See, Installation view at Fort D’Arcy, Nassau, Bahamas, Prospect.6: The Future Is Present, The Harbinger Is Home (Nov 2, 2024–Feb 2, 2025).
Our Moons Shine, For All the Worlds to See, 2024. Installation view at Algiers Point, Prospect.6: The Future Is Present, The Harbinger Is Home (Nov 2, 2024–Feb 2, 2025). Commissioned by Prospect.6. Image courtesy of the artist and Prospect New Orleans. Photo by Jonathan Traviesa.
Our Moons Shine, For All the Worlds to See, 2024. Installation view at Algiers Point, Prospect.6: The Future Is Present, The Harbinger Is Home (Nov 2, 2024–Feb 2, 2025). Commissioned by Prospect.6. Image courtesy of the artist and Prospect New Orleans. Photo by Jonathan Traviesa.
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ur Moons Shine, For All the Worlds to See, 2024. Installation view at Algiers Point, Prospect.6: The Future Is Present, The Harbinger Is Home (Nov 2, 2024–Feb 2, 2025). Commissioned by Prospect.6. Image courtesy of the artist and Prospect New Orleans. Photo by Jonathan Traviesa.
ur Moons Shine, For All the Worlds to See, 2024. Installation view at Algiers Point, Prospect.6: The Future Is Present, The Harbinger Is Home (Nov 2, 2024–Feb 2, 2025). Commissioned by Prospect.6. Image courtesy of the artist and Prospect New Orleans. Photo by Jonathan Traviesa.
Catch A Stick of Fire II, 2021, aluminum, hardware, ceramics, coral bell plants, water, light, oxygen, care 180" * 120" * 120"
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