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Dialogue: 0,0:00:13.85,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Music Playing)
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's lots of levels on which my
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,paintings can be approached.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One can approach it as simply an object
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that has a certain kind of beauty.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One can approach it as an object that has
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a text in it that has different levels of
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,legibility.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Silence)
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If one knows James Baldwin and realizes
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that the text in my painting is from an
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,essay that he's written, then that opens up
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the painting; gives it a different level of
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,meaning.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Silence)
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The paintings that address the Million Man
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,March were made in the mid '90's,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a couple of years after Louis Farrakahn,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the leader of the Nation of Islam
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,organized a march on the mall in
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Washington, D.C. about the visibility and
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,presence of black men in the country,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which I find rather ironic, since
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,black people have been in this country
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,since the beginning, before there was even
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a country, but we still feel the need to
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,assert our personhood.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Silence)
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The irony of this march, perhaps, was that
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,black women were encouraged to absent
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,themselves from work, but not to attend
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the march as full participants.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I started to think about making silk-
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,screen paintings using images of the march,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this kind of notion of absence or
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,disappearance of women was something I
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was interested in and something I tried
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to find in the images themselves.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Silence)
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Like any artwork, things become richer
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if you know more about them,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I don't think that's crucial.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Someone can walk into a museum and not
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,know a single thing about a Jackson Pollock
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,painting and still have a reaction to it;
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,still get something from it. The thing
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that they get from it may be richer if they
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,know more about it, but that's like
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,anything (laughter), you know, that's
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about being in the world.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Silence)
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Music Playing)