Black 2/3
by Christy Sawyer
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11.000 x 8.500 inches
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Title
Black 2/3
Artist
Christy Sawyer
Medium
Photograph - Alcohol Ink
Description
As I joined the nation in mourning the terribly brutal killing of George Floyd, I began to question exactly what is “black.” I asked my grandson how to correctly use that term versus “people of color.” He is bi-racial and has always been treated by others as black. Defined, if you will, by his color. He said “people of color” refers to many races whereas “black” refers to people of African descent.
Searching for a way to express my anguish over the tragedy and to process the fear it causes me when I think of my four black grandsons and how vulnerable they are to racial profiling and abuse of power by police, I began to meditate on color as it pertains to inks, my preferred medium, which resulted in experimentation in puddles of intense hues which flowed into and around one another.
This painting, 2/3, consists of warm hues of gold and brown, bronze and toffee, copper and caramel (not what we would associate with skin tones except in a condescending stereotypical way) yet in light of racial profiling, people of such glorious beauty and variety of complexion are lumped together as “black.”
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June 9th, 2020
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