Designed for quick consumption, they're cheaply made and feature eye-catching art. I'm particularly drawn to old mass market paperbacks as they were the books I grew up reading. I'm a passionate reader, but I feel like in our current age of distraction the time it takes to discover what's contained in a book requires an even greater effort. Stickers on shaped panel, 28 x 48 in., 2022 My goal is to organize this noise into recognizable signals – ones that illuminate the things we should be prioritizing when we’re so easily distracted by the spectacle of our society.Īn excellent article about the original photo can be read in the Charlotte Observer HERE. We’re constantly bombarded with images and information and rather than feeling more informed and connected, it seems we’re ever more confused and isolated. I use commercially produced stickers to represent the cacophony of our modern American culture. As some people still try to erase or whitewash our unpleasant past it's ever more important to look closely at inspiring moments of resistance like this one. It feels important to revisit this image today, in light of the continued need to uproot the racist foundations of America. I wasn’t introduced to the powerful images of her difficult journey to school until just a few years ago and was so moved by her stoicism and bravery in the face of the sheer mass of resistance. Only a few decades earlier young activists like Dorothy Counts took the brunt of abuse by racist community members who resisted school integration in North Carolina. Growing up in Virginia in the 1970s I was completely unaware of the history of the public educational system in which I was enrolled. Based on a photograph by Don Sturkey, in the collection of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library
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