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Reparations Now! Painting
United States
Painting, Wood on Paper
Size: 40 W x 48 H x 0.5 D in
Ships in a Crate
About The Artwork
The wallpaper of this painting is made up of aged paper with the transatlantic slave ship printed on top. I was drawn to this image for a few reasons: At first glance, it is beautiful until you look closer, like history itself. Secondly, the ship resembles church windows which harkens one's mind to religion and God. Which I think is apropos, since money seems to be the only lasting religion in America...the most followed, the most revered. People kill in the name of money and enslaved millions of my people in the name of making cash but we will not go quietly into the night. Someone is going to pay. The former masters and all who profited on the backs of slaves, including the government who taxed the goods the slaves picked. The cotton was used to clothe not only people in the US but people all throughout Europe. The sugar cane my ancestors gathered in the hot, unforgiving sun in Louisiana, was enjoyed by millions worldwide and now it is time to pay. Pay for our trauma, our pain, the inequity brought on by hundreds of years of chattel slavery. 246 years to be exact. Reparations now is a painting about justice. Notice how the woman in the painting has a masculine edge— purposeful. Also, notice how she is not asking for reparations, but demanding— maybe even seducing one to comply.
Details & Dimensions
Painting:Wood on Paper
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:40 W x 48 H x 0.5 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
Packaging:Ships in a Crate
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Ships From:United States.
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My name is Sarah Louise Wilson. I was born in the cold state of Alaska but I consider myself a California girl at heart since we moved to California when I was seven years old. I also lived in Wisconsin for a stint and ate really good cheese. My love for good cheese and cuisine was further fulfilled when I traveled and lived abroad from Greece, Paris, Lebanon, and even Kazakhstan as an adult, but I am jumping ahead. I began painting in my childhood — which, like all childhoods, was traumatic from time to time but also filled with tremendous joy and imagination. Drawing and painting were excellent ways for me to exercise my range of emotions. It had to be around ten years old when I won a national art contest for a drawing I did. A year later, I sketched the birth of Jesus on the back of my father’s blueprints which he brought down to the local newspaper. They not only did a write-up about the art, but they also awarded me with a trophy and some cash. This, in a way, solidified my future vocation, or one of them. I also found filmmaking to be a wonderful way to express myself. However, I have found my way back to painting in the last year during quarantine when the social injustice was too much for me to endure. I needed to paint these feelings out of me and in doing so, I discovered many things about our shared past, present, and future.
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