Bouffant Pride

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This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A mixed media work utilizing photogravure, collage, paint, and Plasticine, laser-cut, three-dimensionally modelled and layered. Covering the majority of the print's surface are small black and white portrait headshots arranged in a grid pattern resembling a photography contact sheet. Each small portrait features an individual, mostly women, shown from the neck upwards. The hair of each individual has been cut out, revealing yellow paper placed underneath to give the figures yellow/blonde hair. Each figure’s eyes have been painted over with white paint. Under each headshot is a rectangle of paper in either white or brown paper. These rectangles appear to be covering up letters in black type that are located under each headshot. In the bottom left corner of the page is a woman’s face in profile facing to the proper right. On her head is a bouffant hairstyle formed out of black Plasticine. Placed throughout the bouffant are small plastic googly-eyes.

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