The Maze Print - Limited Edition of 20

From the Imperial Dreamcatcher Series A black and white screenprint created from a mixture of personal photography and found images. Pencil is added as another texture of shading. The light in this work falls on a portrait of Haitian deputy Jean-Baptiste Belley (c. July 1746 – August 1805) This painting was by Anne-Louis Girodet (1767-1824) a French painter and Republican who painted scenes of the fall of the Bastille and other events of the Revolution in the 1790s. Girodet posed Belley alongside a marble bust depicting the abolitionist Guillaume-Thomas Raynal. The painting has been called a “pictorial meditation on the abolition of black slavery that derives power from forceful and startling juxtapositions". It is nevertheless complex as Belley who was sold into slavery as a small child, later himself became a slave owner in a “privileged intermediate position, neither slave nor white” Nevertheless he participated in the assembly that abolished slavery in French territories and this painting was created to commemorate the event. The title The Maze comes from the script for our new film work Imperial Dreamcatchers and talks to the films topics of decolonialism and code switching.

Printmaking:Screenprinting on Paper

Artist Produced Limited Edition of:20

Size:39.4 W x 27.8 H x 0 D in

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