Experts Guide

Mason jumps out of airplanes, and her practice incorporates photography, craft and performance to expose how individual responses to collective trauma are shaped. Other work has focused on appropriating visual mediation following afflictive events such as the Rodney King beating or undocumented U.S./Mexico border crossings in order to draw awareness to systems of violence and power. In an installation titled “Love Letters/White Flag: The Book of God” (2009-2016), Mason hand embroidered Eric Harris’ journal entries leading up to the Columbine High School massacre on vintage handkerchiefs.