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Initial Thoughts: A Correspondence

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We’re honored and grateful to @crosstownarts for the opportunity to showcase a body of work we are proud to call, “BLEEDING TOGETHER: A Correspondence”

May 2025, stay tuned! taken in Crosstown Arts by @_a_correspondence

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We’re excited to announce our newest series, To Get to the Other Side: A Correspondence, will be showcased @thefrontnola in New Orleans, May 2026!

Huge thank you to @creating.dejamojo for giving us this great opportunity! by @_a_correspondence

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9 months ago

NEW SHOW ALERT 💫
Join us on August 30th Trolley Night for the opening of ‘Initial Thoughts: A Correspondence’ by @_a_correspondence !
This will be our first show since the pandemic and we couldn’t be more excited! taken in Jack Robinson Gallery by @_a_correspondence

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Nest, written for @_a_correspondence show @thefrontnola, To Get To The Other Side. taken in The Other Side by @_a_correspondence

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Reliquary: A Correspondence Comps 9-12. For this body of work, we were sent an archive from @mersadiesburch of photos, documents, news clippings, and postcards from @thesterick, and we were set loose to explore its 29 floors - we snagged ledgers, peeled wallpaper, took photographs. The series that resulted was made entirely from these findings; each collage made with images from within the building and its history, and each poem written only with the words banked from transcribing these documents.

Artist statement: Reliquary is an exploration of the historic Sterick Building in Memphis, Tennessee. This body of work includes collaged and poetic works studying the story of the Sterick Building, the city of Memphis, and what the future holds for both these places. These pieces were made by pouring through archival materials from the building’s past; all collages and poems are composed entirely out of relics — images and words found in articles, postcards, ledgers and signs, or discovered by exploring the building itself. These works open a portal to the past, both personal and cultural, and contend with the following questions — in the near century since the Sterick building was erected, what has changed? And what has stayed the same? taken in Sterick Building by @_a_correspondence

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Reliquary: A Correspondence, 2025. Comps 5-8 from a body of work commissioned by @thesterick for an @etowahcollective dinner last April. by @_a_correspondence

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Reliquary: A Correspondence, 2025.
Composition 1-4.

Reliquary is an exploration of the historic Sterick Building in Memphis, Tennessee. This body of work includes collaged and poetic works studying the story of the Sterick Building, the city of Memphis, and what the future holds for both these places. These pieces were made by pouring through archival materials from the building’s past; all collages and poems are composed entirely out of relics — images and words found in articles, postcards, ledgers, and signs, or discovered by exploring the building itself. These works open a portal to the past, both personal and cultural, and contend with the following questions — in the near century since the Sterick building was erected, what has changed? And what has stayed the same? taken in Sterick Building by @_a_correspondence

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Today we are open from 12-5 pm. Get into the teeny tiny details of this installation by @_a_correspondence correspondence curated by @creating.dejamojo , member of our current collective. In Room 4, lies a creative collaboration by Andres Arauz and Abby Meyers in a show titled, To Get to the Other Side: A Correspondence.

To Get to the Other Side is a collaborative body of work which considers safety as both destination and condition. The work emerges from lived experiences shaped by violence, including sexual and domestic abuse, and a generational history of displacement and emigration. In this context, safety is not a certain endpoint but a horizon pursued through distance both physical and temporal, conviction, and survival instinct.

About the artist:
Abby Meyers, is a native Memphian and award winning filmmaker whose practice is rooted in poetry and extends into visual art and floral design. Arauz was born and raised in New Orleans, LA, specializes in collage, design, and photography and works as an art educator. In 2017 he moved to Memphis where he and Meyers met and soon after began making art with one another, and have continued to collaborate ever since.
“A Correspondence”, became the name under which Arauz and Meyers created work with one another. Inspired by Ray Johnson’s New York Correspondence School –– a collective of New York-based artists who collaborated on works through the postal service –– the collaboration began as a physical exchange. Arauz would create notecard-sized analog collages and pass them along to Meyers, who would write “micro poems” in response, meant to be consumed in tandem with the visual piece. This ongoing process has expanded and taken on various forms including guerilla murals and works on wood panel that continue to explore the relationship between text and image. taken in The Front by @_a_correspondence

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To Get to the Other Side: A Correspondence will be coming to a close soon! Before joining us closing night June 7th, we invite you to join the correspondence on June 5th at 6 pm as we open up our thoughts about the series @thefrontnola

Live performance by @anwar_zip taken in The Front by @_a_correspondence

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To Get to the Other Side: A Correspondence
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Thank you to all who came out to our opening to share this special evening with us. Special thank you to the fellow artists we were able to share this space with @sly.watts @what_are_the_wild_waves_saying @is_ing

@thefrontnola as well as @creating.dejamojo for offering us the opportunity to showcase and explore this series. Thank you to @willapuswallapus with @crosstownartssharedart for once again helping us execute this work. And of course, we owe a lot to @cm0lina for giving us the nudge of encouragement we needed to accept the offer presented to us. Our work will be on view at The Front through June 7th. Check out our artist statement below. To read the poem in full titled, Nest, by Abby Meyers @your_goomah check out the highlight in our bio!

To Get to the Other Side is a collaborative body of work which considers safety as both destination and condition. The work emerges from lived experiences shaped by violence, including sexual and domestic abuse, and a generational history of displacement and emigration. In this context, safety is not a certain endpoint but a horizon pursued through distance both physical and temporal, conviction, and survival instinct.

Using compositional clusters of found images and confessional free verse poetry wheat-pasted on wood panel, this transit toward sanctuary is considered through proximity and intersection. Each walking figure has been lifted from its own unique and ambiguous context. Their stories—however we may understand them—are reframed or reimagined as they interact with one another and become part of a collective condition, interwoven through fields of first-person memory. By presenting the poem in fragments on the figures’ silhouettes, it becomes another member of this crowd of characters, nodding to the interiority of the people depicted on these panels.

This work is a crossing of paths as each of us engages in our own movements towards our own refuge; the providence—both seen and unseen—that guides where our bodies go and why; and the record and remembrance of these steps as they accumulate across time. by @_a_correspondence

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This upcoming Saturday will open our new shows. In Room 4, member @creating.dejamojo will be showing artists Andres Arauz and Abby Meyers. This show is titled, To Get to the Other Side: A Correspondence. The medium used is wheat paste on wood panel.

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To Get to the Other Side is a collaborative body of work which considers safety as both destination and condition. The work emerges from lived experiences shaped by violence, including sexual and domestic abuse, and a generational history of displacement and emigration. In this context, safety is not a certain endpoint but a horizon pursued through distance both physical and temporal, conviction, and survival instinct.

Using compositional clusters of found images and confessional free verse poetry wheat-pasted on wood panel, this transit toward sanctuary is considered through proximity and intersection. Each walking figure has been lifted from its own unique and ambiguous context. Their stories—however we may understand them—are reframed or reimagined as they interact with one another and become part of a collective condition, interwoven through fields of first-person memory. By presenting the poem in fragments on the figures’ silhouettes, it becomes another member of this crowd of characters, nodding to the interiority of the people depicted on these panels.

The work considers the crossing of paths as each of us engages in our own movements towards our own refuge; the providence—both seen and unseen—that guides where our bodies go and why; and the record and remembrance of these steps as they accumulate across time. by @_a_correspondence

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50 people, one GIANT COMMUNITY COLLAGE ⚡️ huge thank you to @your_goomah and @ae_arauz from @_a_correspondence for leading the charge for this beautiful collaborative work at @memphislibrary. This event was made possible by @memphislibraryfoundation. by @_a_correspondence

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