- Ohh, this is Gallery DAAS?
- Check out the red curtains! I feel like I’m on stage.
- These photographs are amazing. Some of these crowns look familiar, but others I’ve never seen before. I wonder what that’s about.
- Found a text panel! Let’s see what this all means.
- The title comes from a Gary Byrd song. Must look that up immediately.
- This song is super catchy. Never getting that out of my head.
- Self-determination for minority students?
- Ohhh, like crowning yourself. Clever! Except challenging what identities we use to crown ourselves… and especially how pursuing a college degree affects minority students. (Pondering)
- I should go back to the photographs now that I have a clue what this is about.
- I wish I could have taken my school yearbook photos like this—no facial details, just my silhouette and a shiny crown. There would have been no stressing about what I looked like!
- Okay now I can go over to the curtain part of this exhibit.
- Hey, another text panel!
- Woah this woman has exhibited in a lot of places. She showed stuff in Zimbabwe? She was featured in the New York Times? Am I looking at the work of the next Big Name in art?
— Lauren Plawecki
