This exhibition has been an endeavor long in the works and would have been an impossibility without the assistance, conversation, kinship, and unwavering belief of so many. 

Thank you to each of the artists who trusted me with their work and this project. It has been a privilege and joy to be a part of your practice for the last several months. You are each inspiration to me and countless others.

Thank you to Nancy Huang for gifting your words to this exhibition. They are a spell that I will hold close. 

Thank you to my colleagues and friends in Providence and at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design for your support and community as this project grew, struggled, and thrived. 

Thank you to Rob Chron for being a constant support and the photography for the exhibition.

Thank you to Nelson Saavedra for keeping me accountable and the beautiful video editing in support of this exhibition.

Thank you to Eloise Sherrid for your compassion and work in documenting this gathering of objects and voices. 

Thank you to Sarah Rachel Brown for your conversations, on-going, around cross-pollination, community, and why we do what we do. I hope to learn from how you hold space. 

Thank you to Steven Velazquez for being a constant sounding board for ideas, issues, and music recommendations. Thank you for your invaluable labor in creating the exhibition’s website so that this project can persist. 

Thank you to my students, you make the work we do worthwhile. It’s a privilege to learn from you each class. 

Thank you to the Rago/Wright team for providing a home for this project and working with endless enthusiasm and flexibility as we brought this show together.

Thank you to New York City Jewelry Week and a special thank you to Bella Neyman for your work, assistance, and being emphatic supporters of the work I do for so long. 

Thank you to Tyler for not only supporting my passions and work, helping me build pedestals, putting up with sawdust in the studio, and the late-night conversations on how to make life work, but also choosing to go along with me. I love you. 

Thank you, the reader, for sharing your time with this work that means so much to me. 

And thank you, dandelions, you’ve taught me so much.


- Steven KP