Phyllis Brody
Cleveland Heights, OH
My work emerges from a wish to explore, understand and express creativity and imagination through a materials oriented, problem-solving, intuitive process .
Message
Created in response to Trump's practice of hold immigrants in cages, this piece is an open book whose pages are painted to evoke figures behind a wire fence. Quotes form Emma Lazarus poem on the statue Of Liberty and the United Nations are written on the covers. The book rests on another book, titled the U.S. Constitution and all rotate on the turntable.
- Subject Matter: The scene of an immigrant detention cage
- Collections: Artist Books, Collage and Assemblage, Commentary
