"Often when you're in the process of realizing an image, it's going somewhere else. If that tangent starts going off in a place that feels more exciting, that's what I go with."
"From Here I Saw What Happened and I Cried" (1995)
"From Here I Saw What Happened and I Cried," 1995
Selection from set of 30 C-prints with sandblasted text on glass, dimensions variable
© Carrie Mae Weems
Courtesy Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
Selection from set of 30 C-prints with sandblasted text on glass, dimensions variable
© Carrie Mae Weems
Courtesy Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
"I’ve spent a very long time digging in the complex soil of race and racism. I’ve spent so much time looking at it, thinking about it, troubled over it, obsessed by it. And it still matters to me in a profound way."
-Carrie Mae Weems
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