Installation: We Reach Across the Same Blue Sky

​​We Reach Across the Same Blue Sky is a visual meditation on migration, culture and identity. Using images and text from my family’s rural history in Switzerland and Sweden and my husband’s rural roots in Nigeria, this work explores how the journeys of those who came before impact our own, as well as our children’s developing sense of identity. While our ancestors spoke different languages, had different cultural practices and came from separate continents, the title, “We Reach Across the Same Blue Sky,” refers to the underlying connection of human beings to each other and to nature, ultimately the deepest form of belonging.

​Working in charcoal and acrylic paint, portraits and landscapes from our family histories are punctuated with handwritten lines of text, photo transparencies and deep blues and greens that flow onto the wall space, echoing the changing landscape of identity. So many families share stories like ours, I hope the viewer sees parts of their own journey reflected in this work.

Showing at the Muse GR ArtPod, 128 Louis St. NW