The composition of this stained glass work is drawn from an arrangement of figures in Théodore Géricault’s 1819 painting “The Raft of the Medusa.” Myers is struck by the similarities...
The composition of this stained glass work is drawn from an arrangement of figures in Théodore Géricault’s 1819 painting “The Raft of the Medusa.” Myers is struck by the similarities between the plight of those shipwrecked travelers and the near-constant flow of migrants from West Africa across the Mediterranean. In 2016, the artist spent several months in Munich working with young people who had made that harrowing journey and talked to them about the unimaginability of the open sea. Géricault’s composition is capped by a Black body waving a red flag, and there are men waving those same flags today.