What is it that haunts you? Is it how bad it is to raise the dead? To give life to something that did not own it in the first place? Why does your face fall and twist and gape? Why do you scream with your mouth open and your eyes sad?
A photograph means that an image has been stolen from time. The image has been captured and once you look at the image you too will become captured. So you will stand with the image in mutual capturedness being reminded that the photograph, the image, the reminder of a place
Your bald head Your brown skin Your baby powder plastic scent How everyone loving the way you smelled Your laugh Your locket Your voice The soft movements of your arms and legs How you snored while you slept The song they wrote for you Your pink earrings How everyone wanted
The first time I saw him I was 14. I let out a gentle gasp of amazement and confusion. He was not called by his name then. Instead they called him monster, evil, demon, killer. After learning about what he did, he was called these names by me as well
I found you, Various materials, 1:12, 2014 “I found you today, you were hiding from me. I fought for you. I cried for you. I wondered about you, I wondered about me. until i found you”
2014. Riot, 6″, Clay, Site specific installation at University of Maryland Baltimore County. The late 60s saw lots of riots about Vietnam and racial riots on college campuses. It is rumored that UMBC, in an attempt to protect itself, created these riot stairs to slow down any riots that may
Arit Emmanuela Etukudo 