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Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.47,0:00:08.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Music Playing)
Dialogue: 0,0:00:14.26,0:00:16.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's lots of levels on which my
Dialogue: 0,0:00:16.23,0:00:18.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,paintings can be approached.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:19.25,0:00:21.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One can approach it as simply an object
Dialogue: 0,0:00:21.74,0:00:24.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that has a certain kind of beauty.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:25.47,0:00:27.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One can approach it as
Dialogue: 0,0:00:28.48,0:00:31.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,an object that has a text in it that has different
Dialogue: 0,0:00:31.59,0:00:34.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,levels of legibility.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:34.18,0:00:38.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Silence)
Dialogue: 0,0:00:38.26,0:00:40.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If one knows James Baldwin and realizes
Dialogue: 0,0:00:40.60,0:00:42.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that the text in my painting is from an
Dialogue: 0,0:00:42.79,0:00:47.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,essay that he's written, then that opens up
Dialogue: 0,0:00:47.67,0:00:49.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the painting; gives it a different level of
Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.91,0:00:50.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,meaning.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:50.76,0:00:54.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Silence)
Dialogue: 0,0:00:54.75,0:00:59.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The paintings that address the Million Man
Dialogue: 0,0:00:59.39,0:01:02.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,March were made in the mid '90's,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:02.61,0:01:06.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a couple of years after Louis Farrakahn,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:06.26,0:01:08.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the leader of the Nation of Islam
Dialogue: 0,0:01:08.27,0:01:10.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,organized a march on the mall in
Dialogue: 0,0:01:10.38,0:01:14.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Washington, D.C. about the visibility and
Dialogue: 0,0:01:14.57,0:01:18.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,presence of black men in the country,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:18.35,0:01:20.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which I find rather ironic, since
Dialogue: 0,0:01:20.28,0:01:23.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,black people have been in this country since the beginning
Dialogue: 0,0:01:23.55,0:01:25.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,before there was even a country
Dialogue: 0,0:01:26.72,0:01:28.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but we still feel the need to
Dialogue: 0,0:01:28.77,0:01:30.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,assert our personhood.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:30.53,0:01:34.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Silence)
Dialogue: 0,0:01:34.94,0:01:38.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The irony of this march, perhaps, was that
Dialogue: 0,0:01:38.48,0:01:42.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,black women were encouraged to absent
Dialogue: 0,0:01:42.19,0:01:44.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,themselves from work, but not to attend
Dialogue: 0,0:01:44.66,0:01:47.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the march as full participants.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:48.70,0:01:51.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I started to think about making silk-screen
Dialogue: 0,0:01:51.80,0:02:10.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,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)