About the Artists

Lorena Cruz Santiago Using Facetime as a medium, Cruz Santiago, who is based in Detroit, Michigan collaborates
with her parents to make video work and photographs of their garden in Northern California. This collaboration comes from a desire to include her parents in her process instead of making them subjects of her work. Photography has appeared in her family history as a tool of oppression, meant to distinguish her family as foreigners via bureaucratic identification cards, and her work aims to put the camera into their hands.

Brock Oakley Ailes Hidden in cupboards under the sink K-mart bags and yellowed Tupperware preserve mold. Pissed my name in the snow. Golden Arch Eulogy. Dried Elastic and the powers out, I’ll have nothing to wear when nailed to the dogwoods on the front lawn. An icicle magnifying glass hanging from sun bleached nylon, burning discount patriots like the last Pall Mall. Lancaster Rotary Club; beef, eggs, bread, saltine crackers, salt. A lucky horseshoe hanging above the uninsured. ODJFS provided a fair view just before noon Sunday, but tonight the River Valley seems more of a drip than a trickle even though my feet are blue