Growing up my grandmother: Maria Winley used to have this nodding head doll, I think as a child I was afraid of it, but the doll wasn’t going anywhere so we quickly became friends. The doll is a Bisque Bank that nods and was painted black during ca. 1940-1950. I decided to take works that depicted African Americans as Mammy and other disparaging figures and turn them into beautiful works of art, by decoupaging this figure along with florals, embellished with large pearls on plates, I created what is now known as the baby with the watermelon.
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I can certainly understand the concept and you are very talented. However, painting flowers on hurtful images simply highlight the lengths people will go to attempt to become comfortable with something that will never be comforting.
WTF?! It's like folks who paint lawn jockeys white and think that somehow makes them ok. Please don't try to paint over ugly history to make it "beautiful." It is the same sort of revisionist thought that allows people to fly the ANV Battle Standard (mistakenly aka Confederate flag). Just no.
I can certainly understand the concept and you are very talented. However, painting flowers on hurtful images simply highlight the lengths people will go to attempt to become comfortable with something that will never be comforting.
WTF?! It's like folks who paint lawn jockeys white and think that somehow makes them ok. Please don't try to paint over ugly history to make it "beautiful." It is the same sort of revisionist thought that allows people to fly the ANV Battle Standard (mistakenly aka Confederate flag). Just no.
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