Sōl Stories
Purdue University, as a vibrant, beautiful sneaker community, dances, laughs, and thrives in sneakers. Zach Edey gets buckets in sneakers. Scores of you go to bars and parties in sneakers. Some of you collect them, and some of us teach while wearing them. This campus has many Söl Stories, including your own.
Every one of us has a Söl Story.
The point of this exhibition is to share some of those stories. These six student photographers have rendered and imagined their own Sol Stories for you to witness and experience. There are stories of family and tradition, tales of intergalactic wonder, emotional narratives, and stirring fables about nature. You will see artists honoring memory as well as imagining nostalgia and fantasy through Purdue car culture. Mostly, though, as you go from image to image and series to series, you will see the work of talented student artists who care deeply about their craft and Purdue.
As Jay-Z said, "You can be anywhere in the world, but you're here with us, and we appreciate that."
