...dignity...for those who bear/bare witness, 2018

Miami Beach 2019
...dignity...for those who bear/bare witness

moniquemeloche

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Mixed Media
hand-cut paper with hand-cut paper elements, plastic letters, feathered butterflies, and crown
227.3 x 245.7 x 10.2 (cm)
89.5 x 96.8 x 4.0 (inch)
“For almost five years, I have been exploring the idea of gardens, both real and imagined, and their relationship to postcolonial spaces. I am interested in how gardens – natural but cultivated settings – operate with social demarcations. I investigate their relationship to beauty, dress, class, race, the body, land, and death. These new works create an immersive installation – a nocturnal garden that acknowledges bodies and sites, that uses pageantry and beauty to create presence in ‘gardens’ gone awry. We come to pause, to bear witness, and to acknowledge…” - Ebony G. Patterson, Artist Statement, 2018