Parting Words
Curated by Jacob Rhodes

May 16 - June 20, 2024

Preview: May 16, 6-8pm

Artist Reception: June 6, 6-8

Artist Talk: June 8, 4pm

Field Projects is honored to present AMY ELKINS : PARTING WORDS.

Parting Words is a visual archive created out of mug shots and testimony readily available through public records of the 560+ people executed in Texas prisons since 1976, the year the ban on capital punishment was overturned. Using an algorithm, Elkins converted each mug shot into looping excerpts from last utterances ranging from confessions to hymns, protest to sorrows and fears. Parting Words is a work in progress, growing in size with the growing numbers of those executed in Texas, a state responsible for over 37% of all executions in the United States, which is more than the totals of Virginia, Oklahoma, Florida, Missouri, Georgia and Alabama combined.