Our perceptions of the world usually derive from our lived experiences, backgrounds, and upbringing. For former NBA all-star author and artist Joe Barry Carroll, height was also a factor.
His new exhibition at the Hammonds House Museum, “My View from Seven Feet,” explores the mystical quality some might assign to a person standing seven feet tall.
The show is on view through Sept. 18, and Joe Barry Carroll joined “City Lights” host Lois Reitzes via Zoom along with Leatrice Ellzy Wright, senior director of programming at the Apollo Theater in New York and curator of this exhibition at Hammonds House Museum.
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