I am not tragically colored (after Zora Neale Hurston)
Digital Photography and Plexi Glass
20 x 30 inches; 5 x 8 inches
2013-2014
Digital Photography and Plexi Glass
20 x 30 inches; 5 x 8 inches
2013-2014
In this photographic series, I am pushing a piece of glass against my mouth as I say a quote by Zora Neale Hurston. Each photograph captures my enunciation of each syllable in the sentence, "I am not tragically colored." Underneath each framed photograph is a 5" x 8" piece of plexiglass that has the corresponding syllable etched into it.
While making this work I was thinking about: race, language, the body, the abject, gesture, self-portraiture, my occupation/claiming of space, and bell hooks' assertion that, "words are not without meaning. They are both an action and a resistance."
While making this work I was thinking about: race, language, the body, the abject, gesture, self-portraiture, my occupation/claiming of space, and bell hooks' assertion that, "words are not without meaning. They are both an action and a resistance."
Documentation by Daniel Ehrenworth
