Visceral Design

Artist Journeys

My Experience at Standing Rock

I wrote “Tears I Can’t Hold Inside” in Los Angeles in January 2018, after I was forced to return to the United States from Paris (where I currently live) to await trial and see if I would be spending the next two months in jail in North Dakota. This anxiety-filled journey stirred up memories of my arrest a year earlier, and the stint in jail that resulted. Although it was relatively brief, the impact was lasting. In November 2017, I…