Heather Evans Smith: Seen Not heard | LENSCRATCH

Walking into Heather Evans Smith’s exhibition Seen Not Heard at the Southeast Center for Photography is like walking into your Southern grandmother’s living room, complete with vintage flower printed wallpaper and needlepoint hoop frames on the walls.   It’s no coincidence that the series title, Seen Not Heard is rooted in the 1450 English proverb, “Children should be seen and not heard.” This centuries-old adage frames the story of Smith’s conceptual storytelling of, “the cycles that are passed down through generations and the tension between keeping to what is known and forging a newer, and perhaps stronger, path,” according to the artist.