Matrilineage: Dress Form #1

Lillian Blades

2004

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A heavily worked ink drawing of the head and shoulders of a black man, against a white ground. The figure’s skin is rendered with striated (inkless) passages that suggest musculature or keyloidal scarring. The ink is so densely applied in parts that the paper takes on a burnished sheen.
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