The most banned book in the world!
Authoritarian forms of government taking away all civil and personal liberties of the individual.
High relief wall piece
Dimensions: Diameter inches - 26
Materials: Book: Paper clay finished with stains, glazes and on painted wood disc.
“In a land that loves its blond, blue-eyed children, who weeps for the dreams of a black girl?”
Two-piece Installation:
Pecola , sculpture with Blue-eyed Doll
Dimensions: inches – 18h x 9.5w x 10d
Materials: Book; Mixed-media - paper clay finished with stains.
Vintage doll - plastic, cloth and hair.
Relief wall piece: Narrator (Claudia) as an adult.
Intolerant of passing on false racist stereotypes to children, Claudia’s resolution resonates through her defiant posture and attitude.
Dimensions: inches – 16h x 8.5w x 3d
Materials: Paper clay finished with stains and paint.
Based on the book for a young male reader, it is a memoir of being Black and Queer – “When you’re a child who’s different, there’s always something wrong with you…”
Dimensions: inches - 10.5h x 21w x 11d
Materials: Book; Paper clay, stains, glazes and paint.
“…the naked realities of an America divided into HAVES and HAVE-NOTS.”
Worn down and hopeless, this “Okie” woman is pulled from the pages of the story.
Dimensions: inches – 10.75h z 4.5w 7d
Materials: Book; Paper clay, stains and glaze.
“… tensions between people’s urge for savagery and controlling, and the loss of innocence.”
Dimensions: inches – 10h x 5w x 7.5d
Materials: Book; Paper clay, stains, glaze and paint.
Collaboration with Ndume.
Imagine 10,000 books in schools and public libraries being held captive within a cage, wrapped in barbed-wire and surrounded by three faces: Hear No Evil; See No Evil; and, Speak No Evil. This is the reality of today!
Dimensions: inches – 36h x 13w x 13.5d
Materials Mixed media: Books, cage, barbed wire, the American flag; painted faces with sculpted and painted hands.
This universally loved series of books by children and adults captures the magic of the imagination. Sorcerers, wizards, dragons and mysterious spells are all part of every reader’s escape into the joys of make-believe adventures.
Dimensions: inches – 16h x 7w x 8d
Materials: Mixed media: Book, Goblet with Harry Potter – paper clay, finished with stains, glaze, paint & plastic stem.
Dragon: Plastic with paint and “egg” – paper clay finished with stain, glaze and paint.
Enslaved because of their fertility, this scathing TALE is an ominous warning: "Who controls the women and babies has been a keystone of every repressive regime on the planet."
Dimensions: inches16.5h x 12w x 11.75d
Materials: Mixed media: Book, paper clay, stains, paint, wire-mesh corset.
