We wanted to literally put a face on the destruction of the tornado.

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Jefferson & 7th

Because people were there before the storm and people remain after.

On March 3 a deadly tornado tore across Nashville and Middle Tennessee. In Nashville’s Germantown and in East Nashville many buildings were damaged beyond repair.
We decided to put some of the photographs of the affected on the buildings that were slated to be demolished due to storm damage. We wanted to literally put a face on the destruction.

Jefferson & 7th Installation

An excerpt from the service

The Funeral

Just the year before we were in her village in Iraq seeing the place she and her family have left behind.

From the Journal: 1 April 2019
I knew Nazar’s young wife was ill but when I saw his message this morning in Arabic إِنَّا لِلَّهِ وَإِنَّا إِلَيْهِ رَاجِعُونَ‎ (“To God we belong and to God we will return.” -Quaran 2:156) I knew the worst had happened.
I reached out and the family said, yes, she has died.
Then they asked me to come. To the funeral and even welcomed my cameras.
Just last year we were in her village in Iraq seeing the place she and her family have left behind. As we drove deep into north Iraq–Kurdistan–toward the borders of Turkey and Iran we passed through ever-increasing scrutiny at military checkpoints. But each time we said the village we were heading to the soldiers would say, “Oh, this village has the most beautiful women in all of Kurdistan.” It is sad to know she was unable to return home to see her sisters before she died.
As they buried her we felt an overwhelming sense of strangeness. Her body will rest in foreign soil that her young daughters and husband now know as home: Nashville.

ACT IV, SCENE II

Jefferson & 7th Installation

We wanted to literally put a face on the destruction of the tornado.

Because people were there before the storm and people remain after.

Jefferson & 7th

ACT IV, SCENE II

Funeral on Foreign Soil