The Mainer Project was born out of outrage. Outrage at Maine Governor's attempt to include national origin exclusions in the state's General Assistance law. This marked a new era where the attitudes and attacks Pigeon had been on the receiving end of as a foreigner in Maine were now being legitimized in the political and legal spheres. The first installation was an uninvited mural on Congress street in Portland in 2015. The portraits represents people the artist knows who live in Maine, sometimes since a few months, sometimes their entire life, and had experiences of being explicitly told they did not belong in Maine.
Since then Pigeon has worked with the Maine Historical society, the Holocaust and Human Rights Center of Maine, the University of Maine, the Maine Humanities Council, the Attorney General's Office and public schools across Maine. From 3 years of direct interactions with people across the state, Pigeon collected hundreds of very diverse testimonials of xenophobia in Maine. At times threatened with violence for his work, the process of the Mainer Project has turned the artist into a strong believer in the power of conversation and exposure. By committing to sustaining conversation at all cost, Pigeon has gained a deeper understanding of the class, ethnic and personal problematics at the origin of Maine's "people from away" problem.
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