My Brown ghosts (2018)
Santos Rodriguez Park
Doctored negative in graphite, laser cut, and digital inversion.
8 x 10 in.
My Brown Ghosts Negative
Watercolor on Yupo paper, laser cut, and digital inversion.
13 x 10 in
A tracing of an enlarged 4x5 negative is the basis for a project regarding Dallas equity, cultural space, and misremembered/remembered sites.
The murder of a 12-year old Mexican boy by a white Dallas police officer in 1973 is presented in the graphite drawing as a historical absence (revised in my drawing so as to rename the gates in a rapidly gentrifying Dallas community).
In the color negative, the same memory is a museological display, rendered with less forensics by my marks.
