10/05/2018
Beaumont Texas is mentioned in a San Fransisco MOMA Article! Artist Teresa Baker ❤️ contributed a Visual Essay to the San Fransisco MOMA’s Open Space publication that just came out. *Beaumont, Texas is a big part of it. 🌟❤️
“There is a loudness in Southeast Texas that you don’t realize until you leave. A continual hum. Constant birds; from migration to nesting, always singing. With the insects too. Everything is in large numbers; mosquitos, frogs, alligators, cicadas, fire ants. Even the humidity seems noisy — how it engulfs you, so intense and heavy all at once.”
I am Mandan and Hidatsa from the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in Western ND, as well as German from Eastern ND. Fort Berthold is home, but I was raised