What Now?

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. 

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