The Artist Statements project is an ever-evolving creative tribute to the joys—and the sorrows—of Black American life.
It’s a timeline, moving back in time. The first sketch is of a man taking part in a protest this month, followed by a sketch that combines a 1964 text by Malcolm X, an African mask, and the phrase “See the Sin.” Finally, images that were taken during the African independence movements in the 1950s appear in the last sketch. History is fragmented, often violently poetic. It endures through social upheavals, and, stubbornly, through cries for change.
Andrew Christopher Green recently referenced Frantz Fanon in thestating “that negrophilia and negrophobia are two sides of the same coin; both are an inverted reflection of the wretched and contradictory self-hatred the narcissistic white subject feels towards himself. Unable to work through these feelings, he projects them onto blacks.” Lawrence Grandpre reminds us “that one can simultaneously be against white supremacy and support anti-blackness.
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