I Sang The Blues Black: 9 Holes

Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

This framed mixed media portrait by Adebunmi Gbadebo is a composition of screen-printed white hand-made paper, cotton, clumps and strands of black hair, and indigo dye with reproductions of documents related to the True Blue Planation. The edges of the portrait are rough. In the bottom right quadrant is a piece of a document, presumably a reproduction of a plantation owner’s will based on the word [heir]. Underneath the block of text is a black textbox reading [-ue Blue Plantation Ho-].

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