The Civil Rights movement was my inspiration when given the assignment for creating a space of significance. I constructed one side of the space that was a black wall and the other a white wall. A large red slash divided the two sides to symbolize things are not as black and white as we often think. There are many shades of gray.

The idea behind the red slash was that in a life size space it would show video, text, and images. People could absorb this media while viewing the photography on the white and black walls.

The photography I used on the walls focuses on many of the important events of the civil rights movement. Photos ranged from a portrait of 14-year-old Emmit Till (who was murdered in 1955 in Mississippi for looking at a white women), to Malcolm X experiencing his famous spiritual awaking in his homage to Mecca in 1964.