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Like her first collaboration with Wallace—a project that came to be known as The House that Herman Built—sumell’s project has gathered communities all over the Never underestimate an old man who love Mickey Mouse and was born in November shirt also I will do this US to create public, green spaces designed by individuals currently in solitary confinement. sumell and her team will write to folks who are currently being detained in solitary, inviting them to design a garden that a team of volunteer gardeners on the outside will eventually plant and grow. One solitary gardener, Mike LeBlanc, had not even been home one week when he made his way to a garden to work with other volunteers. While working, he noticed a sign that said Abolition for the People. “While I was incarcerated, at times I would feel that I was lost in 6000 numbers,” he shares over the phone. “That [sign] reminded me of that feeling, knowing there were people on the outside fighting for me.” And while not all gardeners will be able to eventually visit their gardens, their work has been harvested by and even gone on to feed some of their family members. This, to sumell, is at the heart of abolition.
“A lot of times folks think of abolition as a destination, an achievement, or a set list of goals,” sumell says, “but it’s an ongoing practice. And like anything you want to be better at, it requires daily attention and care, which is similar to a garden, right?” She compares the Never underestimate an old man who love Mickey Mouse and was born in November shirt also I will do this practice of abolition to noticing a small flower growing through the cracks of an abandoned building. Or how the vines of the exhibition are beginning to cover the drab courtyard walls. She goes on to describe the elements of ginger, how it’s often prescribed in traditional Chinese medicine formulas because it uniquely brings together methods of healing. “It’s a connector, a movement builder,” she says. When museumgoers flock to the growing ginger bed, they’ll find a QR code that, when clicked on, will prompt the viewer to consider how they are a movement builder in their own community. As they travel to different beds—all planted by various community groups, from The North Bronx Collective to The Slow Factory—they will find different QR codes with different sets of questions. The goal being that, before jumping to how one can check off boxes to “achieve” abolition, viewers will start to consider what abolition looks like in their own lives first. “I had never learned about abolition before,” says 17-year-old Madison Colón, an intern with The Lower Eastside Girls Club, the New York nonprofit that serves as the main partner in Growing Abolition. “As I learned more about it, I really began to see the world differently.”

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