Russell M. Hamilton
Current Work / Research
"An Empirical Voice"
"An Empirical Voice" Series 2025
“An Empirical Voice" is a series that examines the foundations of religion, culture, and language through the lens of my belief in the fallacy of ‘race.’ The voice throughout the work is my own—convicted yet curious—grounded in observation and personal experience that shape my understanding of culture, ethnicity, religion, and what it means to be human.
"Im-Migrant" Series 2018 - Present
The “Im-migration” Series explores my thoughts, ideas, and experiences with traveling abroad and being identified as a migrant/visitor/resident. Migration is at the core of human and social development as it has impacted the communities and social structure of both native peoples, and those who have ‘arrived’, either by their own will or brought against their will.
As a traveler and resident in many countries around the world, I have experienced being the ‘other’ while abroad, a feeling I also have while here in my home/birth country. We are all connected to the history of migration as our people, and we ourselves, look for new possibilities. The work was shipped to a solo show in Yogyakarta Indonesia, it was confiscated by the Customs Department, and detained, an ironic twist to work that dealt with Im/migration. I am continuing this tract of work currently.
The Village Square:
The Poetics of Community 2018
