"Drawing is very central to the way that I work because it can be blown up, taken apart.... You can just keep on pushing it, like this infinite machine...."
"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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