identity theft: id bracelets / no id

Hundreds of ID bracelets with multi colored patina and without engraved names represent the millions of slaves and ancestors of slaves in North America stripped of their ancestral lineage. Human hair locs complement the bracelets providing DNA of this slave rape. The oak board was part of a southern courthouse record room table used to hold record books, which held recordings of property documents, including chattel slave records.

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Assemblage: oak wood, wire, id bracelets, human hair, deconstructed aso-oke Ghanaian hand woven cotton fugu (smock), acrylic medium, galvanized steel hardware cloth, iron chain
H 72" x W 48" x D 3"
(2018) ​