Up-South: Wall St., Auction Blocks & Stocks (2012)
acrylic on canvas
21 x 17 inches
this work dissolves the american myth of the north south divide when it comes to addressing reparations from exploiting enslaved Afrikan labor. Focusing on two falsely disparate spaces, new york’s wall street and the southern plantation- the invocation of the african american burial ground under wall street speaks to continued extracted Black labor and social death necessary to sustain its settler colonial project. The piece reminds us that the u.s. empire depends on Black alienation within the nation- and uses racial terror (in the form of the klan or pigs) wherever it sees fit.
acrylic on canvas
21 x 17 inches
this work dissolves the american myth of the north south divide when it comes to addressing reparations from exploiting enslaved Afrikan labor. Focusing on two falsely disparate spaces, new york’s wall street and the southern plantation- the invocation of the african american burial ground under wall street speaks to continued extracted Black labor and social death necessary to sustain its settler colonial project. The piece reminds us that the u.s. empire depends on Black alienation within the nation- and uses racial terror (in the form of the klan or pigs) wherever it sees fit.
