Ibara of Nganya Jason Chen corroding perspective and interfering with

corroding perspective and interfering with how we communicate with each other

Montgomery'sConfigurations of Memoryprint series is a culmination of a life's journey

the image carries an almost electric charge

It may seem peculiar

it's labor that is not included in the economic statistics

Ibara of Nganya Jason Chen corroding perspective and interfering withFrom the Artist To see is to know. But how can we know the unseenthe histories, the stories, or the names of a people that were undocumented or erased? I asked myself that question late one evening as I looked at the sun setting behind the hills on the Bay of Portobelo on the Caribbean coast of Panama. The view from my studio faces the ruins of a dock that was, at one time, the first encounter with Tierra Firme for many weary, shackled, and enslaved