In this virtual installment of our Hard Conversations series, on Friday, December 18, 2020, 12-1.30pm, Willie Baronet, Stan Richards Professor in Creative Advertising, Meadows School of the Arts, SMU, will showcase and discuss his ongoing We Are All Homeless project.
No registration needed. Just logon to https://smu.zoom.us/j/99418653829. (Alternatively call 346.248 7799; Meeting ID: 994 1865 3829)
(Courtesy of Danny Fulgencio and the Oak Cliff Advocate)
Baronet describes the evolution of this project in vivid personal terms on his website: “I’d pull up to an intersection and encounter a person holding a sign, asking for help… I struggled with my moral obligations… In my struggle, I avoided eye contact with those on the street, unwilling to really see them, and in doing so avoided seeing parts of myself. That began to change once I began asking them if they would sell their signs. My relationship to the homeless has been powerfully and permanently altered… I still wrestle with personal questions regarding generosity, goodness, compassion, and guilt. And what it means to be homeless: practically, spiritually, emotionally? Is home a physical place, a building, a structure, a house? Or is it a state of being, a sense of safety, of being provided for, of identity?”
