Artwork > Soft is Strong

SHE GATHER ME
2021
Installation Excerpt
02:30 min. excerpt of 10:50 min. looping

Installation: HD Color Video & 16mm Color Film Transferred to Video with Two-Channel Audio, Three Wooden Rocking Chairs, Silver Mylar Floor
Dimensions Variable

Camera, Sound, Vocals, Text, Editing: Miatta Kawinzi
Two-Channel Audio: Vocalization, Cassette Tape Recordings, Synthesizer, Original Electronic Score


“She is a friend of mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. It’s good, you know, when you got a woman who is a friend of your mind.”
- Toni Morrison, “Beloved"

Filmed & recorded in -
Detroit, Michigan
Johannesburg, South Africa
New York: Alfred, Brooklyn, Harlem, Manhattan
Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Tulsa, Oklahoma
&more