Analogous Colors

Titus Kaphar

Part of the A Mother, Possibly Exhibit

Titus Kaphar utilizes deconstructive techniques such as cutting, shredding, stitching, binding, and erasing to confront the scarcity or subversion of Black figures in traditional Western art and address societal concerns such as the legacy of slavery in the United States and the confluence of racial injustice and protest.

Analogous Colors, portrays a woman whose face depicts a mixture of tenderness and worry as she pulls a child to her chest, except the child is a void, cut from the work so the silhouette reveals the frame behind. An empty space where a body should be, laying bare the anxieties and horrors of raising a Black child in America. Cropping the work draws the viewer deeper into the woman’s expression and heightens the emptiness of the missing child.
 
Published by Two Palms, NY