Credits​

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Kwamena Blankson, Writer

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When I started this project, I knew that I wanted to somehow record these narratives that kept running through my head.  I had a long conversation with a mental health advocate and fiction writer named Kwamena Blankson.  Kwamena spends most of his days in a mental hospital, advocating on behalf of patients.  In our conversations, we discovered that we both "heard" the voices of characters in similar ways - me with the people in my paintings, Kwamena with the characters in his writing.  I told him about the Vespers, and that conversation was the birth of the project.  We would talk over the phone, and I would tell him what I had heard, and sometime later, he would transform these conversations into written narratives and poems.  The Vesper Project includes many pieces of writing - after the masterful editing of Stella Maria Baer, we've attempted to tell the story of this family's life through seven documents.  Ultimately, I think this will be a book, where we will include more documents and spend more time with the historical nuances in the narrative. 

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Stella Maria Baer, Editor and Studio Assistant

 

Rick Lacey, Studio Assistant

 

Horacio Marquinez, Film Cinematography

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Luke Hanscom, Photography

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Mena Henry, Project managing and architectural assistance

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Seth Reese, Wrote and performed music for the film

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Phyllis Anscombe, Read poetry in the film

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I would also like to thank all the folks at Friedman Benda.