Tag: art

raveneuse:

  • Carrie Mae Weems, detail from From Here I Saw What Happened and I Cried, 1995.
  • Scars of a whipped slave, Photo taken at Baton Rouge, Louisiana 1863. In his own words, “Overseer Artayou Carrier whipped me. I was two months in bed sore from the whipping. My master come after I was whipped; he discharged the overseer.”

raveneuse:

Hannah Wilke, Intra-Venus, (1992-1993).

Hannah Wilke died in 1993 from lymphoma. Her last work, Intra-Venus, is a posthumously published photographic record of her physical transformation and deterioration resulting from chemotherapy and bone marrow transplant. The photographs, which were taken by her husband Donald Goddard whom she had lived with since 1982 and married in 1992 shortly before her death, confront the viewer with personal images of Wilke progressing from midlife happiness to bald, damaged, and resigned. The Intra Venus works also include watercolor Face and Hand drawings, Brushstrokes, a series of drawings made from her own hair and the Intra Venus Tapes, a 16-channel videotape installation.