Title: Watching a Five Time Oscar Nominee After Fifteen More Years of U.S. Backed Apartheid
Medium: Conte, graphite, ink, digital collage, personal writing
Dimensions: 17 in. W x 22 in. H
Date: 2020
Personal essay/broadsheet reflecting on representations of state-sponsored violence and colonialism within popular media. Later adapted into mini comic format for Empire is Tacky anthology.
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Alt Text: Full image view. Black and white, ink and graphite broadsheet, roughly divided into three rows traveling down the height of the page. Some boxes and frames are used to isolate images and moments of text, but uneasily, like precariously stacked boxes. Detailed section descriptions in following slides.
Alt Text: Upper third of image. On left, two variations of ink and graphite drawings of a man in a tee shirt and boxers standing in a doorway, looking off to some unseen source of noise. On right, the backs of two fleeing, hunched figures frozen in midstride in a hallway. Bullet holes and splatters mar the doorways and walls around them.
Alt Text: Middle third of image. On left is a grid of six frames. Three depict drawings of flags. The others, a map of Ft. Snelling, a Gericault study of amputated limbs, and a photo of a bulldozer. Each frame has an "X" drawn through it. On right, a drawing of a mob of ski mask-clad, shouting men pushing through a hall. A second frame shows a closeup of bulging eyes and gritted teeth.
Alt Text: Lower third of image. A single, wide frame depicts an ink and graphite drawing of a screaming man in profile, stabbing a kitchen knife into the forehead of a figure in a ski mask held against a wall. To the right of that figure is a long line of that same, masked figure spanning into the extreme foreground of the image, each figure with a knife embedded into its forehead.