NASHER MUSEUM OF ART AT DUKE UNIVERSITY
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Ralph Lemon: Moving Inside The House
A lot has happened to Ralph Lemon since 2004. After traveling to Mississippi to research the performance Come Home Charley Patton, Lemon developed a relationship with 104-year-old sharecropper Walter Carter. Lemon began making art based on his relationship with Carter [one of the pieces, "Walter Repairing Record" (2006) is on display in The Record right now]. But in this period of creation, Lemon also seen tremendous loss: that of Walter and his partner, Asako Takami.