Objects in the Installation
Jim Crow Chocolates. Glazed ceramics, paper, ink jet printed liner, and found cigar box, ca. 2014
Jim Crow Chocolates
Jim Crow chocolates are ceramic, so they would crack your teeth. They are in the shapes of cotton, clan hoods, dynamite, snarling dogs and Vulcan, the sculpture watching over the city of Birmigham.
Legacy Collection. Cast chocolate and soap, ink jet printed liner, and found cigar box, ca. 2015.
Legacy Collection
The Legacy Collection of candy is filled with cast chocolate and cast soap… what of the legacy is sweet and what must be spit out.
A Planter’s Desk
A Planter’s Desk
A handmade book with stamped cotton on the cover contains pages inscribed with known names of individuals enslaved by Samuel Wallace, his agricultural production in 1850-1870, and bits from Walk Humbly, the agricultural journal kept by kith James Mallory from 1843-1877. The globe shows the trade route for slaves, raw cotton, and manufactured cloth and luxury goods. The planters were often keen business men, tracking the prices of cotton, and closely identified with England.