Amid Flowers, Crowns, and Tears serves as a doubled gaze between 1970 Dallas and America over fifty years later as well as the encoded gaze of the news camerapersons and the ensuing one of the artist/filmmaker. The (digitized) film is structured to shift between moments of presence and absence; bodies lounge poolside in one scene and, in another, a woman lies down at the site where unarmed Michael Morehead was shot and killed by police. The story of Michael Morehead is told in proximity to a store owner’s experience of armed robbery who makes a conscious choice to let the perpetrator live. In slow rhythm, the film moves between sound and silence, figure and ground, as well as spectacle and obfuscation.
Curated by Michael Morris and presented at the Dallas Museum of Art
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