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Tongues Untied, 1989 (dir. Marlon T. Riggs)

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72/365

week 10 of my self-portrait project 

black boy mondays.

in the district
(c) [02.25.13.]

We don’t do well with polarity; if it’s gritty, it’s got to be dirty. If it’s glossy, it’s got to be clean. No, that’s not how we operate; while our life is dirty and gritty, we always try to keep it clean. Our parents’ and our grandparents’ generations are great examples of that.

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me today, self portrait - 10/20

black boy saturdays.

From My Paper Bag Colored Heart
Wilmer Wilson

2012

Performance with inflated paper bags. A meditation on skin, objecthood, and liminality, through the historical lens of the paper bag as an implement of colorism. Performed in relation to my sculptural installation titled Domestic Exchange.

First image taken by myself. Subsequent images by Matt Dunn / courtesy Conner Contemporary Art.