interventions: Color Persona II
How did we arrive at a place where skin color is connected to hierarchy? Hierarchy is meaningless when considering skin color. Throughout the world’s history humans lost some melanin which resulted in varieties of skin color. Today, skin color ranges from the darkest, deepest brown to lightest pink-beige with an array of yellowish reddish tinges.
We descend from Africa therefore, all humans are related. There is more genetic variation in a flock of penguins than there is in the human race. Humans are biologically 99.9 percent the same.. According to St Augustine, "Humans are one."
Unsanctioned by the community, a rogue act, represented below are six out of twenty-two versions installed in Kingston, NY, June 2020
materials: acrylic paint, acid-free ink text, archival watercolor paper
