Rockland Residency
2017Some of the work I created during the Rockland Residency in Seattle, WA. I focused on the gentrification happening in Seattle, predominantly in the Central District neighborhood—which is a mirror to East Austin’s pattern.
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Cecil Beatty’s Redlining Story with Central District Homes (3 pieces) watercolor and pen on paper, all 12x16”
This series of 3 homes with drawn type is a story from Shelf Life, a local Seattle community project recording oral histories with Central District neighborhood residents.
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Yesler Terrace watercolor and pen on paper, 12x16”
Yesler Terrace was the first racially integrated public housing in the U.S. and in recent decades a safe landing place for immigrants from East Africa, Cambodia and Vietnam. The original buildings were being bulldozed while I was in Seattle, and new buildings being built with a promise to house all previous residents, with considerable public doubt.
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