In her latest project, a 52-part documentary poem wherein video cameras record ordinary citizens from Alabama, as fragments of their lives and personal traits are exposed while reading verses from Walt Whitman’s epic “Song of Myself.” Crandall explained that documentary unexpectedly exposed a tender and non-judgmental portrayal of those who participated – especially the more powerful episodes that focused on Anthony Stewart, an illiterate middle-aged man (verse 43: On the Road), and the other that focused on Donnie Goodin, a paraplegic who sold chewing gum and sweets (verse 51: in Birminham). Many in the audience became overwhelmed with emotions at one point or another.

Although Alabama was chosen as the location for filming, Crandall’s intention was really to bring everyone together as nation of Americans without any stereotyping, or prejudice. In essence, Crandall wanted the southern state “to be better enfolded into a general American consciousness” that is a part of America, and not an individual state.