2025

Materials: Found Frames, Linocut Block Printing, Used Bedsheets from Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, and Lawrence, Kansas, Quotes from John Brown, Photo from the site of the Chiquola Mill Massacre, Transferred Polaroid on Water Color Paper of textile mill that participated in the Textile Strike of 1934, Image Transfer on Geli Print of labor martyr Ella May Wiggin’s funeral, Transferred Polaroid on Water Color Paper of S.P. Dinsmoor’s 1907 Crucified Labor, Video composed of Layered Stop Motion Photography of Appalachia and South Carolina, Audio- Lecture by Murray Bookchin on the Ecology Movement, 1978

The title for this piece comes from a ballad that Ella May Wiggins wrote in support of her union organizing efforts in Gastonia, North Carolina. I approached this piece as a collage of liberation movement history. This collage ranges from Kansas to West Virginia to the Carolinas, connecting the abolition movement to the labor movement and from labor to ecological utopia. The arrangement is a map, inviting interpretation through engagement with the history contained in each reference.