Artists in Residence Works in Progress: Richard Vetere & Manuel Borras

Nino DeSimone and Cantel Daniels are long time friends. For twenty-years Cantel has worked for Nino’s construction business and now he wants Nino to hire his nephew Shan as an assistant-book keeper. Nino does only to find that Shan has a criminal record. Nino is outraged that Cantel never told him but the truth of the matter was this – the college graduate Shan was a victim of “stop and frisk” and the cop who arrested him planted the drugs on him. Nino doesn’t believe Shan and fires him and for the first time Cantel realizes that both men are not what he wanted to believe and perhaps race does play a part, an ugly part, in their ‘friendship.’