Portfolio by University of Alabama faculty members including ten poems by Dwight Eddins and ten offset lithographs by A. C. (Al) Sella

Plate X. The first incendiaries flushed a shelf of elegant figurines (illustration)

Illustrated by Alvin C. Sella, Text by Dwight Eddins

1980

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Black female figure crawling across the screen of a large analog television, indicated by the brown, paneled frame and two large, black dials on the right hand side. The background is comprised of long strips of colored paper – white, yellow, light blue, green army camouflage, fuchsia, stars and stripes, and cobalt blue – that are arranged in the form of the SMPTE (The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers) color bars test pattern. Though the central figure crawls across this pattern, she also appears to emerge from it as the long piece of camouflage paper dissects her body at the waist. She has wild, black, tentacles for hair. Her face is rendered with several small pieces of colored paper – red, pink, yellow, blue, green, and white. The outside of her left arm, as well as the inside of her right arm are constructed in a similar manner, made out of various sized colored triangular paper. She also wears a leopard print bikini.
A series of orange wavy horizontal lines on a neutral field.
Black and white press print of two older men, one white and one African American, talking two each other with their heads bent close together. Both men wear dark suits and ties. Includes caption "(AX3) ATLANTA, Ga., Jan. 15--WITH HEADS TOGETHER--The Rev. Martin Luther King Sr. and President Jimmy Carter (right) share words during Sunday's ceremony in Atlanta to present the Dr. Marting Luther King Jr. Non-Violent Peace Prize to President Carter. (AP LASERPHOTO) 1979 (cab205 oostf/jw)"
Bust of Bear Bryant.