“I welcome …all of you… into this curious room of forgetting what had been remembered.”

Out of the age of McCarthy and the Beat poets, Rux has created controversial African-American artist Archer Aymes, who became an overnight sensation for his first book, “Mother and Son” — ten turbulent years later, he was found dead in a prison cell. In TALK, a young artist, and moderator of this evening, has gathered five panelists to discuss the life and work of Archer Aymes, and the meaning of his legacy. Commissioned in response to The Foundry’s Conversation on Hope, Talk is a fierce exploration of identity, and the struggle to maintain an original voice.