Respond In Kind is a series comprised of artworks focused on reflection, experience, poetry in photography, and in a certain way context. These mixed media installations are made up of digital and film photographs along with excerpts of experiences illustrated in the form of handwritten words in oil pastel. The imagery is subtle though the emotional experience is dense. The hands place you in an experience, relatable though not your own, and the large wall print envelopes the entirety of your visual experience as you float through tiny flashes of memories. These 2 experiences stretched across a long wall face one another, define one another, reverberate off each other. Similarly to how one creates an internal identity comprised of personal narratives and then projects that self into the saturating world to be received and stored in the context of a moment, the strobe of a memory, and then back into the subconscious.

Respond In Kind
Jacob Lawrence Mandel Respond In Kind
Respond In Kind Installation View
2017

Liminal Gallery at Gallery Aferro Newark, NJ
Jacob Lawrence Mandel Respond In Kind
Respond In Kind Installation View
2017

Liminal Gallery at Gallery Aferro Newark, NJ
Jacob Lawrence Mandel Respond In Kind photographs and oil pastel
I Don't Know My Own Strength
2016
photographs and oil pastel
16x20
Jacob Lawrence Mandel Respond In Kind photographs and oil pastel
Looking For Home
2016
photographs and oil pastel
16x20
Jacob Lawrence Mandel Respond In Kind photographs and oil pastel
Something Worth Doing
2017
photographs and oil pastel
16x20
Jacob Lawrence Mandel Respond In Kind photographs
Respond In Kind Installation View
2017
photographs
360x80

Liminal Gallery at Gallery Aferro Newark, NJ
Jacob Lawrence Mandel Respond In Kind photographs
Respond In Kind (detail)
2017
photographs
360x80
Jacob Lawrence Mandel Respond In Kind photographs
Respond In Kind (detail)
2017
photographs
360x80
Jacob Lawrence Mandel Respond In Kind photographs
Respond In Kind (detail)
2017
photographs
360x80
Jacob Lawrence Mandel Respond In Kind photographs
Respond In Kind (detail)
2017
photographs
360x80
Jacob Lawrence Mandel Respond In Kind photographs
Respond In Kind (detail)
2017
photographs
360x80
Jacob Lawrence Mandel Respond In Kind
Respond In Kind (detail)
2017
Jacob Lawrence Mandel Respond In Kind
Respond In Kind (detail)
2017
Jacob Lawrence Mandel Respond In Kind
Respond In Kind (detail)
2017
Jacob Lawrence Mandel Respond In Kind
Respond In Kind (detail)
2017
Jacob Lawrence Mandel Respond In Kind
Respond In Kind (detail)
2017
Jacob Lawrence Mandel Respond In Kind
Respond In Kind (detail)
2017
Jacob Lawrence Mandel Respond In Kind
Respond In Kind (detail)
2017
Jacob Lawrence Mandel Respond In Kind
Respond In Kind (detail)
2017
Jacob Lawrence Mandel Respond In Kind
Respond In Kind (detail)
2017
Jacob Lawrence Mandel Respond In Kind
Respond In Kind (detail)
2017
Jacob Lawrence Mandel Respond In Kind photographs and oil pastel
I Don't Know My Own Strength (installation view)
2016
photographs and oil pastel
16x20
Jacob Lawrence Mandel Respond In Kind photographs and oil pastel
Looking for Home (installation view)
2016
photographs and oil pastel
16x20
Jacob Lawrence Mandel Respond In Kind photographs and oil pastel
Something Worth Doing (installation view)
2016
photographs and oil pastel
16x20
Jacob Lawrence Mandel Respond In Kind digital photograph, oil pastel, charcoal
Something Worth Doing
2015
digital photograph, oil pastel, charcoal
24" x 36"
Jacob Lawrence Mandel Respond In Kind digital photograph, oil pastel, charcoal
I Don't Know My Own Strength
2015
digital photograph, oil pastel, charcoal
24" x 36"
Jacob Lawrence Mandel Respond In Kind digital photograph, oil pastel, charcoal
My Breath Pushed The Wind
2015
digital photograph, oil pastel, charcoal
24" x 36"
Jacob Lawrence Mandel Respond In Kind digital photograph, oil pastel, charcoal
Respond In Kind
2015
digital photograph, oil pastel, charcoal
24" x 36"
Jacob Lawrence Mandel Respond In Kind digital photograph, oil pastel, charcoal
Looking For Home
2015
digital photograph, oil pastel, charcoal
24" x 36"
Jacob Lawrence Mandel Respond In Kind digital photograph, india ink
Untitled
2015
digital photograph, india ink
24" x 36"
Jacob Lawrence Mandel Respond In Kind digital photograph, india ink
Untitled
2014
digital photograph, india ink
24" x 36"
Jacob Lawrence Mandel Respond In Kind digital photograph, india ink
Untitled
2014
digital photograph, india ink
24" x 36"