When you hurt your hand, your body’s natural response is to shake. Because that shaking relieves the trauma of that pain. Within the Movement Series, what I’m exploring now is the healing process. Not focusing on the fact that the hammer hit the hand, but the fact that the hand is now shaking and it’s trying to repair itself. Within the community level, healing [begins with] imagining the part of the healing that has to do with projecting ourselves and prophesying about what the future is gonna look like.

“I want to share my eyes with you, not just have you look at a pretty picture.”

Sometimes quiet was satisfying, but sometimes quiet was hurting my ears. Because I felt like nothing was just as powerful as the rooms where I would hear the tears and the crying.

We are pleased to present this interview with our Spring 2020 featured artist, Heather Polk.

This is what I am supposed to be doing, this is what my gift is, to share that joy. My work is very much about joy. To share that joy and to show that healing, and give people those spaces to be vulnerable and share that love with others.

It was like I was gathering. And part of my artistic practice is this gathering.

No cameras are ever seen on the streets that we actually grew up on; where our families live.

The inaugural issue of A Gathering Together features the dynamic work of the artist collective, TunnelVision Artists Agency (TVA).