Tatyana Fazlalizadeh
Artist / Author / Cultural Worker
The Day is Past and Gone was a site-specific installation created for the Greenwood Art Project in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and presented inside the historic Vernon AME Church. Developed in response to the centennial of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, the work asked a question that has long informed my practice: Where are we safe?

The installation combined experimental film, projected moving image, sound, music, and altered church objects, including charred fans and hymnals. Situated within one of the few surviving buildings connected to Greenwood's Black history, the work used the Black church as both a symbol and a site to represent refuge, fellowship, resilience, and the ongoing vulnerability of Black spaces to racial violence.

Through image, sound, and installation, the work invited visitors into a space of remembrance and reflection, considering how Black communities create places of care and protection while living under the persistent shadow of racial violence.



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