4stones is now part of “Immigrant Song.”

I started “Immigrant Song” just after the election of Trump with diptychs including the portrait of an immigrant and a still life of the arrangement he or she made with four stones. The underlying idea was to shoot a double portrait, figural and abstract: one showing the face, the other something that the individual created.

Then I added photographs of objects that immigrants brought from their country and text they wrote in their own hand to explore what it means to be uprooted. With this work, I try to give voice to immigrants and let their pride shine through.

Starting the day after September 11, this blog tells the story of the 4stones project, and then Immigrant Song. If you would like to have a chronological view, start with the oldest post.

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