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Beginning as a clothesline hung with dirty laundry, I wondered, what does it mean to live in the House of Jim Crow?
White [not] white no. 1, 2010
Recycled wood window pane with fabric collages. Linen, cotton, silk, fabric adhesive, thread, wood, screws, recycled window panes, 30" x 30"
Looking through the windows, our dirty linen colors our vision of what is possible. Uncovering patterns, separating the layers of what we perceive to be whole cloth, the images begin to reveal how convenient it is for White that people [not White] fail to recognize how The House of Jim Crow would link the fate of all those [not White].
White [not] white no. 2, 2010
Recycled wood window pane with fabric collages. Linen, cotton, silk, fabric adhesive, thread, wood, screws, recycled window panes. 30" x 30"
White linen on white, a silk veil, separated from the color of life in cotton below, what is White in The House of Jim Crow?
Could it be that white is defined by [not White]?
White [not] white no. 3, 2010
Recycled wood window pane with fabric collages. Linen, cotton, silk, fabric adhesive, thread, wood, screws, recycled window panes. 33" x 30"
Are we color blind or are we blind to how whiteness, created to serve White, separates us from one another, leaving those called white in search of an identity affirmatively defined and those called non-white outside the circle of humanity? Identities that our families once had, but gave up, like a favorite hat that felt like it no longer fit in the new suburb or at the new job, pretending we don’t see the circle of humanity we left behind?
White [not] white no. 4, 2010
Recycled wood window pane with fabric collages. Linen, cotton, silk, fabric adhesive, thread, wood, screws, recycled window panes. 30" x 30"
Is being white the same as White? Did White create white as a thin veil to hide capital W White’s insatiable hunger for profit and disregard for human life itself? Perhaps lower case white–did you mean class—is actually [not White] in the ever expanding House of Jim Crow?
Detail: Building of Transcontinental Railway (left) Middle Passage (right)
