NINA

She Coulda Raised the Titanic

Under her hand was supposed to be a table but I could not get the shape of it right so it ended up looking kinda like a record. The record seemed to be coming out of the water and the woman seemed to be raising it up. I thought "she coulda raised the Titanic" --the original name of the song 1930. 

1930 is the year my grandmother was born--her 77th birthday would have been the day Sink or Swim was released. She died before I was born and I never got to meet her. She lived on May street.

That song has been a prayer for me over the years and this lady would elevate the world with music. 

As she looks over the cold Atlantic at night, as my grandmother would have done, I notice a shadow of a ship in the distance--the Titanic. 

Jackson and Mae were on board that ship.