Like so many Americans, The Poet Gold and Suprina, a sculptor, struggled to understand the individual and cultural meaning of the murder of George Floyd. Through ordinary conversation, they found out they were each dealing with this issue in their own arts. Suprina was creating a ghostly and ghastly, ironic representation of the blind goddess of justice, Themis.
Poet Gold was writing one of her poelodies addressing American racism and oppression, which ends questioning our individual and communal humanity. Poet Gold asks “What kind of humans are we inside?”
These Hudson Valley friends broadened their original collaboration of a processional performance to include musical arranger, Bobby Sabella, and videographer, Paul Thompson of Sound Asleep Media, in producing a video “Say Their Names” scanning of 500-years of American racism and oppression and ends with a hopeful possibility for our future.
The video project introduces Sounds of Heritage, a choir from Newburgh, NY. “Say Their Names,” to be released on February 1, 2022.
