The painter, the portraitist, and the author, who are all friends from their college years, sat down for an intimate conversation about making art right now.
Well, representation isn’t everything because if it were the solution to everything then there would be no more racism, because we had a Black president. I think representation is very important, but it requires much more than that to shift narratives. ... In my work, I think about public identity, the ways that our bodies are consumed in the media—who people think we are in comparison to who we really are. So representation can play a humanizing role.
So I think there is room to say that representation is clearly not enough. And yet, for white people, it clearly really matters. You try to take down the Confederate flag, these people lose their minds. They’re losing their minds over taking down a statue. Why? It must mean something. I haven’t talked about this—and this is all I’m going to say about it—but I got hired to do this Superman movie, right? I knew when that happened that white folks were going to lose their minds.
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