CRACKER CRUMBS
10" x 14" x 38"
Mixed Media/Installation

This project was inspired after a white male once told me (before being corrected) that "Blacks should be grateful. They've been getting free stuff since the beginning. They even got 40 acres and a mule."

The antique bank is a part of Black Americana and the word 'cracker' is a derogatory term against people that force white privilege and white supremacy upon people of color. Represents the judgemental 'crumbs' that are reluctantly tossed to people of color by narrow minded and boastful racist ignorant individuals who build their facts on underlying mistrust, lies and deceit. When a lever is pressed on the back of the shoulder, his arm raises to his mouth and the eyes and ears move as if being forced to 'ingest' the cracker. (see video and additional images below.)

Antique gum ball machine, kinetic bank, metal, paint and clay.