This piece was really time consuming and that’s my own fault I guess lol. This was another distorted scan of a weaving I did, which I then cut back into. All of the white that I saw within this image, I tried my best to remove all of them. Obviously I wasn’t able to rid every bit of white from the image but I think that adds a nice contrast to the image. 

I pondered for a while what I could place behind the image so it would show up from the front. I didn’t like the idea of one solid colour because it seemed too restricting. I flipped through some old art books that were provided and found this image of numerous black women doing hard labour. Since my cut outs resembled cracks I thought adding an image of black women was perfect. As they say ‘black don’t crack’ 

I wanted to symbolise the battles of minorities. Cracks spread across the bodies and faces of the women show what they’ve been through as a community, the hardships, struggles, etc. I coloured in the eyes of the women to give them a godly look.