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Join Raymond Thompson Jr. at The Lab @ Silver Eye Education Center for an informal conversation around his current ongoing project “It’s hard to stop rebels that time travel”. “It’s hard to stop rebels that time travel” is a photography project that utilizes archival fragments, historic ephemera, and my own images to focus on individual stories of slaves, maroons, and runaways whose existence is only now revealed through traces in the collective archive. This project works to expand narratives about the Black experience and our connection to the “American” landscape. This work has been guided by local historic archives of runaway slave ads, lynching news articles, Black folklore and other location specific historical events. Raymond Thompson Jr. exhibited his work at Silver Eye in Radial Survey Vol. 2 (2021). Work from that project has just been published as Appalachian Ghost: A Photographic Reimagining of the Hawk’s Nest Tunnel Disaster (University Press of Kentucky, 2024)