Perfection
30 x 20 in (h x w)

2019

16" x 20"

Collage of Vintage Papers, Spackling, Embroidery Floss, and Acrylic Medium on Framed Stretched Canvas

This piece not for sale

As a white mother of a bi-racial child, these are perilous times. I worry about Jacob in different ways than I worry about my other children, who happen to be white and not of color, especially when it comes to the police. That is a simple a fact in the year 2020 as it was for the decades beforehand. This statement collage, built from the often problematic US Constitution, vintage Civil War maps (a shared interest of ours), and other multi-colored and vintage papers symbolic of his 23andMe DNA profile (that we underwent together), speaks to a child once considered illegal and immoral (in the state of Alabama where we once lived and he went to college for his Political Science degree in Tuscaloosa) as what he truly is to me, not only in my eyes, but the way he should be seen by society in general: simple perfection,

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