Portfolios > Some Older Work

This was part of a series of paintings I did honoring my great great grandmothers body slave who later was her servant. She was “given” to my great great grandmother by her parents when she married my great great grandfather. She was a child at the time. I asked my grandmother her name. She only knew her as Black Mother. This was many years later. It seemed no one knew her by her name. The painting was part of an installation where I attempted to understand and do penance for the wrongs of my family.