The Years Now MILITARY One of us is a

One of us is a bully

racial or religious battle line somebody strolls up to smudge it

they learn the truth is far more sinister

Next their game of catch is ruined when their ball goes POP

When eavesdropping leads them to a ring rumored to have belonged to Anna “Nancy” Smith Strong—according to local Long Island legend

The Years Now MILITARY One of us is aThe 2020 exhibition Harold Mendez: The years now presented a suite of existing and newly commissioned worksincluding photography, sculpture and soundby visual artist Harold Mendez at the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts. Mendezs practice draws on artifacts and rituals from sites across the Americas, spanning from pre Columbian times to the present, to create poetic assemblages that connect histories of violence and erasure with acts of renewal