
- FROM HERE I SAW WHAT HAPPENED

- YOU BECOME A
- SCIENTIFIC PROFILE

- A NEGROID TYPE

- AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL
- DEBATE

- & A PHOTOGRAPHIC SUBJECT

- YOU BECAME MAMMIE, MAMA,
- MOTHER & THEN, YES,
- CONFIDANT - HA

- DESCENDING THE THRONE
- YOU BECAME FOOT SOLDIER & COOK

- YOU BECAME UNCLE TOM
- JOHN & CLEMENS' JIM

- DRIVERS

- RIDERS &
- MEN OF LETTERS

- YOU BECAME A WHISPER
- A SYMBOL OF A MIGHTY VOYAGE
- & BY THE SWEAT OF YOUR BROW
- YOU LABOURED FOR SELF
- FAMILY
- & OTHERS

- FOR YOUR NAMES YOU TOOK
- HOPE & HUMBLE

- BLACK AND TANNED
- YOUR WHIPPED WIND
- OF CHANGE HOWLED LOW
- BLOWING ITSELF - HA - SMACK
- INTO THE MIDDLE OF
- ELLINGTON'S ORCHESTRA
- BILLIE HEARD IT TOO &
- CRIED STRANGE FRUIT TEARS

- BORN WITH A VEIL
- YOU BECAME ROOT WORKER
- JUJU MAMA
- VOODOO QUEEN
- HOODOO DOCTOR

- SOME SAID YOU WERE THE SPITTING IMAGE
- OF EVIL

- YOU BECAME PLAYMATE
- TO THE PATRIARCH

- AND THEIR DAUGHTER

- YOU BECAME AN ACCOMPLICE

- OUT OF DEEP RIVERS
- MIXED-MATCHED MULATTOS
- A VARIETY OF TYPES MIND YOU - HA
- SPRANG UP EVERYWHERE

- YOUR RESISTANCE WAS FOUND IN
- THE FOOD YOU PLACED
- ON THE MASTER’S TABLE - HA

- YOU BECAME
- THE JOKER'S JOKE &

- ANYTHING
- BUT WHAT YOU WERE
- HA

- SOME LAUGHED
- LONG & HARD & LOUD

- OTHERS SAID
- "ONLY THING A NIGGAH
- COULD DO WAS SHINE MY SHOES"

- YOU BECAME BOOTS,
- SPADES & COONS

- RESTLESS AFTER
- THE LONGEST WINTER
- YOU MARCHED &
- MARCHED &
- MARCHED

- IN YOUR SING SONG
- PRAYER YOU ASKED
- DIDN'T MY LORD
- DELIVER DANIEL?

- AND I CRIED

- Installation view, Center of Contemporary Art, Seville, Spain, 2010

- Installation view, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, 2012