Tsen will be curating pieces from her ongoing series of books of the same name that explores the American narrative of perpetual expansion and the longing for home. The exhibition will be a mixture of artifacts, photographs, drawings, prints, and needlepoint, specifically focused on the history of the land of the Midwest.

Elaborating, Tsen says, “The open land west of here is the most American of places. In this land lies both our eternally expanding future and our original state. It is the lure of a new beginning and the timelessness of home, the edge and the interior, all at once. In Rain Follows the Plow, I use these contradictions as a starting point to explore the promise of empty land and related themes of time, memory, and migration. The resulting collection of artifacts and stories layers the land’s physical history alongside its imaginary realms.”