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 upper right corner is a bold indigo dye patch over a piece of a document with the text in a black text box reading [True Blue Plantation Hole #8]. In the bottom left corner is a printed photograph of what is presumably the True Blue Planter’s Residence. There is light indigo dye along the left bottom edge.

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