These Stars Are Just Like Me
60 million and more: These Stars Are Just Like Me
Black Acrylic Paint and Black Glitter on Calendars
124"×96"
2017
This body of work serves as a grounds for dialogue, engagement and repositioning of trauma executed against blackness. 60 million and more refers to Toni Morrison's dedication of Beloved to Africans stolen from Africa. I used mapping strategies to act as a space of memory and memorializing Blackness. More includes all those Trayvons and Crystals and Altons and Sandras...