[MUSIC PLAYING]
DAVID ANTHONY GEARY:
The thing that
makes art really great at
sparking conversations,
sparking connections, is that
it comforts the disturbed
and disturbs the comfortable.
The basis of the
great migration is
that between the 1910s
through the 1960s,
roughly 6 million
African-Americans
moved from the rural South to
everywhere else in the country.
This project is
really about digging
into the idea of
that shift, and how
that massive movement of people
in such a short period of time
changes America.
The work speaks to the idea of
social impact and policymaking.
Being here in a space that there
are discussions about shaping
our communities, shaping
culture, anything
that broadens one's
perspective has the ability
to affect change and how we
begin those conversations
through someone being
able to see the work
and sharing it with the other
folks that are in the space.
For me, it's important that
the viewers of this work
take away some
sense of connection.
The history of the human
experience is migration,
and so this very
specific story has
a very universal application
in the understanding
of the human experience.
