Jailbirds in Flight
A quiet exhibition of women who taught us how to be free.
Miriam
Wisdom worn like a well-kept garment.
Please take a moment before you continue.
Miriam is the kind of woman older cultures used to gather around. She listens more than she speaks, and when she does speak, sentences arrive already finished, already true. She has the elder's gift of holding contradiction—firm and forgiving, plain and mysterious, at ease with what she does not know. Nothing about her is hurried. Nothing about her is small. Spend ten minutes with her and you will feel your own thinking slow down, the way it does in a cathedral, or a forest, or any place where something older than you is quietly keeping watch.
Ten minutes with Miriam
A short film in the Jailbirds in Flight series. Running time approximately ten minutes. Please watch, if you can, in one sitting.
Filmed inside — part of the ongoing project to change the way our culture sees the women it puts behind walls.
Wisdom
Miriam taught us that wisdom is what remains when performance falls away. She listens more than she speaks, and when she speaks, the sentences arrive already finished. She is a reminder that older cultures were right to gather around their elders—and that freedom, in the end, includes the freedom to slow down enough to hear them.
A favorite line from Miriam will live here — one sentence that opens the whole door.
Miriam
An excerpt about Miriam
A short passage from Jailbirds in Flight featuring Miriam will live here — the kind of paragraph that makes you want to buy the book by the end of it.
What did Miriam awaken in you?
Written responses become part of the exhibition's guestbook.
Adjacent rooms
Move through the exhibition, one portrait at a time.