Elliot Smith Gallery 1992- The Refugees

Text from the St. Louis Post Dispatch June 6, 1992
By Carol Ferring Shepley

…..With so much movement and color, these abstract pieces seem happy and decorative although they bear a somber message. At the time she was making them, Hall read extensively about the plight of the Haitian refugees. She is fascinated by the region and has sailed……to almost every island in the Caribbean but Haiti…..

The irony of bright, happy shapes and colors overlaying a forbidding message is analogous to the sociology of the Caribbean. There, beaches, sunshine and smiles contrast with the poverty and privation of many of the inhabitants….

Afraid to Stop in Haiti 1987
63″ x 96”
Printed, constructed, handmade paper, painting pulp

Bajo 1989
63″ x 96″
Printed, constructed, handmade paper, painting pulp

Fe Ti Back 1992
62″ x 68″
Printed, constructed, handmade paper, painting pulp

Guantanamo 1992
96″ x 144″
Printed, constructed, handmade paper, painting pulp

Foruja 1991
84″ x 108″
Printed, constructed, handmade paper, painting pulp

Domino 1992
63″ x 76″
Printed, constructed, handmade paper, painting pulp

M’ap Vini 1992
64″ x 77″
Printed, constructed, handmade paper, painting pulp

Nan Ginen 1992
108″ x 72″
Printed, constructed, handmade paper, painting pulp