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golden door project
Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning
to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp
beside the golden door.' Emma Lazarus, The New Colossus
Transcribed onto fragile sheets of porcelain clay, these words echo our tenuous times. Nagy's inspiration:
thoughts of her grandmother's immigration to America, wondering who might have translated Emma Lazarus'
poem to her as her passenger ship entered New York harbor. This is an ongoing project.
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