Artist: Masud Ashley Olufani
Date: 2016
Museum: Hammonds House Museum (Atlanta, United States)
Technique: Panel
This multi-media installation was Conceived to honor the freedom riders whose non-violent protest was waged to integrate interstate busing, the installation is composed of a series of ten silk screened mugshot images of protesters arranged sequentially--each with a loaded slingshot facing them. At the heart of the installation a dividing wall separates a porcelain drinking fountain from a spigot. Above, a vintage segregation sign designates white and colored only. Clusters of stones rest on the floor beneath the photographs suggesting the blows endured to actualize a higher ideal. The work is augmented by a quote from Dr. Martin Luther King;
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