All of the Tears, 2005
A Collaboration with Erika deVries, All of the Tears was performed at FIVEMILES gallery in Crown Heights Brooklyn on September 16, 2005. Visitors had the opportunity to wash the ink from a series of images depicting recent and historical catastrophic events, wrap the washed image in a piece of blue fabric, and tie the image to a series of cloth strips hung across the facade of the building. The images depicted scenes of organized human cruelty including; torture at Abu Ghraib, the New Orleans Superdome in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, civillian victims of a car bomb in Iraq, civilians murdered by the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia...
This project arose from feelings of anger, and helplessness upon seeing the images of prisoners tortured at Abu Ghraib. It sought to create dialog and a sense of communal mourning for the loss of human digninty and lives at the hands of governments and other power hungry groups around the world.
