Let be free and think! -Jennifer A

When Artists Create Flags - Artworks of Creative Time’s Pledges of Allegiance Project

• "she explores the potential made possible through our own mutual cooperation. Possibly holding a piece of the sky, these birds remind us that we must work together."

• "Her work evokes polarization, but also encourages a creative dialogue about our collective future and the one of our planet."

Painting With Words, Writing With Color

• “Sometimes when the water goes down, it looks like a lunar landscape,” she said. “This is my way of marking the experience, something I see over and over again in my daily life” — specifically, during her commute from her home to her studio in Newark. “You see things sometimes in New Jersey that are just so beautiful.”

• That’s such a real feeling, and something we don’t often see in a work of art,” Ms. Elsayed said. “We see the prizewinning piece” — not the nagging insecurities that may have accompanied its creation.