Photos by Mary Alice Murphy
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People gathered to hear the readings.
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Some of the participants in the project. Leader Edie Tsong is at the right.
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One of several letters in the window of Leyba and Ingalls Arts
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Faye McCalmont, Cultural Affairs director at WNMU reads a letter, as Diana Ingalls Leyba looks on.
Love Letters to the World, an interdisciplinary workshop/public art project that engaged students with Edie Tsong, a Social Practice artist living in Santa Fe were read in in front of Leyba and Ingalls Art on Wednesday afternoon. Edie uses poetry and storytelling in her work as inspiration for social interaction.
The letters, written by the students, are heartfelt and beautiful and are scattered throughout downtown Silver City.
“We hope by sharing the thoughts in our hearts publicly, that as you spend time downtown, you remember the humanity of the inhabitants here, in a year where we have been socially distanced, and our deepest sorrows and joys have gone unseen.” Edie Tsong