The Light Keepers

Lyric Montgomery Kinard

50 x 30 inches

2019

ARTIST STATEMENT

In 2018 Carolina Nuñez, a law professor, spent time at the immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas, working with asylum seekers, listening to their stories and helping them prepare for their credible fear interviews.

The hopeless situations they had escaped, only to be incarcerated once they made it to the “Land of the Free” have inspired a flood of attorneys and other volunteers to give freely of their time, to aid these suffering men, women, and children.

Thank you to attorneys Martin Garbus, Kyle Knapp, Carolina Nuñez, Marty Rosenbluth, Emily Strongwater, and Warren Binford, and volunteer Catherine Powers for sharing their stories.

MATERIALS

Cotton cloth, batting, thread, paint

Painting, screen printing, handwriting, stitching