3D Movie

perpetuation of segregation
15" x 22"
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I titled this print "Perpetuation of Segregation". The print is part of a series on dualities in our society. I appropriated the LIFE image of an audience watching the first 3-D movie in 1952. The image is contrasted by two slave silhouettes hovering over halved watermelon. above the audience is a lion rendered in a 3d effect. The movie the audience is watching through some research is "Bwana Devil" about a man-eating lion in Africa. The silhouettes are from an old print of slaves fighting over watermelon while a slave-master and his wife gleefully stand in the background - fully entertained. The duality is based on the fact that the technology of the time is sadly supplemented by the objectification of a race and environment still found inferior and/or beastly when it was put on screen in 1952. The lion at the top is meant to bridge the to images below without being to crass. I have long since sold out of this print (one of which was sold at a silent auction at Maryland Art place's Out of order exhibit).