Monrovia, Liberia.
began in 2021.
Exhibited at the Gene Siskel Film Center, the Museum of Science and Industry, and Tufts University.
With support from The National YoungArts Foundation.
I remember a boy playing on golden sand and an orange sun at seven in the evening. Perhaps nostalgia lit these memories orange — even as a kid, I was certainly aware of the poverty in Liberia and the stain the war left. Yet, whenever I thought about Liberia, I remembered only the sun, the familiar town, and the boy running on golden sand.
Son of Liberia reasserts my memory of Liberia as true.