http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2007/11/my-complement-my-enemy-my-oppressor-my-love/ Thu, 12 Jan 2012 08:40:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2007/11/my-complement-my-enemy-my-oppressor-my-love/#comment-1784 Major Tue, 27 Nov 2007 23:20:14 +0000 http://pf/harriet/?p=536#comment-1784 AE, The fascinating allure of the silhouette, at least for me, is that its potential to illumine race, power, gender et cetera was always there. You're right; she is absolutely brilliant to tap into silhouette as vehicle and metaphor. Let me know when you have a chance to view her work in person. I'd enjoy your take on her work. --Major Jackson AE,
The fascinating allure of the silhouette, at least for me, is that its potential to illumine race, power, gender et cetera was always there. You’re right; she is absolutely brilliant to tap into silhouette as vehicle and metaphor. Let me know when you have a chance to view her work in person. I’d enjoy your take on her work.
–Major Jackson
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]]> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2007/11/my-complement-my-enemy-my-oppressor-my-love/#comment-1783 Alicia (AE) Mon, 26 Nov 2007 08:38:15 +0000 http://pf/harriet/?p=536#comment-1783 I would love to see her work in person... I've just seen photos and pieces about them. The idea of silhouette is so brilliant in this way--decorative, anonymous, initimate (it is as if you are peering into a lighted window), impersonal, a distancing which allows the artist to touch on violence, race (in a colorless medium), power, gender, without being merely "message". It is like when a poet finds just the right form for a difficult subject and suddenly the possibilities flower. I am very interested in issues of race and gender and Southern history and how black and white histories intertwine. I would love to see her work in person… I’ve just seen photos and pieces about them. The idea of silhouette is so brilliant in this way–decorative, anonymous, initimate (it is as if you are peering into a lighted window), impersonal, a distancing which allows the artist to touch on violence, race (in a colorless medium), power, gender, without being merely “message”. It is like when a poet finds just the right form for a difficult subject and suddenly the possibilities flower. I am very interested in issues of race and gender and Southern history and how black and white histories intertwine.
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