This ongoing series uses collage elements from renowned photographers, old Jet magazines, and other vintage sources that depict black people in segregated (both legal and de facto) contexts.
For example, Shirley revisions the main subjects of a photograph by Gordon Parks - in the original, they are standing under a red neon sign that reads “colored entrance.”
In an abstracted context, truths about the present and future are juxtaposed with that past - while we are no longer there, where we are now and what awaits is still not clear.