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| "Trading Post", coral cut from the ocean by enslaved Africans used for foundations and walls encased in plexiglass, 2015, La Vaughn Belle |
This is a prototype. I may go bigger and/or multiple. I love it. I love the straight cuts on the coral that show the craftsmanship of the enslaved. It's like a "readymade". These came from the crumbled foundation of the outhouse on the East St. property. I am happy to have found a way to use them.
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| Fire.Burn.Victoria series, cuts and burns on paper, 2015, La Vaughn Belle |
This is the beginning of a series of work based on the images from fretwork in the town of Frederiksted that was rebuilt after the 1878 Labor Revolt, aka "Fireburn". The cuts and burns in the papers use the two main tools of resistance used at the time.
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| Chaney Series_003 (we live in the fragments), 2015, La Vaughn Belle |
The third in this series. I like working in this size, 48x60, but I think I want to go bigger!
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