353 : Oklahoma is OK

Walt, an artist who has spent most of his life in Oklahoma, made this collage map of Tulsa as a meditation on place and belonging. Coins adhered to the surface nod to oil money, blue glass tiles suggest the Arkansas River, and a triangle marked “STAY” captures the central tension Walt describes: an ongoing inner struggle over whether to remain in the city he knows as home. A handwritten note identifies the Arcon Hotel on 7th and Main as the birthplace of the Society for the Preservation of Barbershop Singing in America, one of many layers of local history embedded in the work.