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Historic Corrections consists of several elements: a 7'x8'
reproduction a photograph of a 1919 lynching a Black man on
fire with a crowd of white onlookers; a series of translucent Duraclear
photographs of Black & Latino urban youth framed on
one side by prison bars. Centered between the mural and these photographs,
a full sized replica of an electric chair. Positioned around the electric
chair are four police batons which each strike a cast fiberglass head
every 10 seconds with a loud hard blow. Live, un-edited police reports
picked up by a police radio accompanies the sound of these headbeatings.
Viewers can walk through the piece and view it from different perspectives.
Furthermore, given the translucent nature of the Duraclear photographs,
viewers can see the urban youth either as jailed criminals
or they can see the artwork through their eyes and be
on the same side of the bars as these youth. |
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