Self portrait

Mose Tolliver

1990

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A black women in a straw hat, seen from the shoulders up.
Single layer of cardboard painted gray, in center a four-sided piece of corrugated cardboard painted with polychrome is applied. Central piece of corrugated cardboard has top layer peeled away in some areas and texture is added with papier maché in some areas.
Blue Building, Birmingham, Alabama, William Christenberry, chromogenic print
Flag bears the traditional "veve" pattern of the "loa" Damballah. Depicts two snakes, with an egg between them. Two leafy plants flank the snakes, and flag is bordered by alternating red and blue triangles.