Self-Talk, 2024
Self-Talk/ Bronx Museum of the Arts / June 14th, 2024
The public engagements were filmed and audio was recorded from two tape cassettes within the booths.
This project was made possible thanks to Roz and Jerry Meyer and The Bronx Museum of the Arts.
Photos were taken by Argenis Apolinario at The Bronx Museum of Arts, Bronx, NY.
An excerpt from Khalil Gibran’s poem
The Prophet Sorrow and Joy
“Your joy is your sorrow unmasked.
And the sesame well from which your
laughter rises often times filled with your tears. And how else can it be?
The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.
Is it not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that burned in the potter’s oven?
And is not the lute that soothes your spirit, the very wood that was hollowed with knives?
When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find that it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy.”
(Gibran 32)
Self-Talk is dedicated to my dear friend Sarah Mandel who was able to hold emotions, hers and those of others, with immense grace, presence, humor and tenderness.