1. Lynching Blues # 3 displays my continued interest in wash layers making statements with less pen lines, to tell the story. The southern fog or humidity floating around the crimes, hours or even days after committed, with a distant moon being veiled and suddenly unveiled by drifting clouds, during am hours.
2. Lynching Blues # 13 shows how not only were black men victims of lynching. Women too could be lynched, as being female did not excuse them from being black and targeted by racial terrorism.
3. Lynching Blues # 15 was an interesting piece to create. It tells the story in such a dramatic and necessary visual. The horrors of racial terrorism breaking through the darkest night, as mobs hunted for black men as game. The bright head lights of the truck and reckless driver chasing a black man through the night, who is running for his dear life to some kind of safety!
4. Lynching Blues # 16 is about how the duties that were enforced, continued as slaves worked in cotton, sugar cane and tobacco fields, among other forced labors, while carrying the heavy burden of their people being brutalized and unjustly murdered. The fears and dehumanization of people who looked like them, stained the conscience and broke the spirit, but could not cease the humility of having to do what was required to prevent serious harm or death.
5. Lynching Blues # 17 captures the moment a man has to accept his fate, that stares back at him in the form of a hanging rope, prepared for his death. I wanted to give a view of the foreground, middle and background of an intense and crucial situation. Death awaits before the victim and it also mocks him from behind.
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