Black Swan
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Ode to ballerina Michaela dePrince who passed away this year at the age of 29. She grew up in war-torn Sierra Leone. At a young age she lost both her parents and was taken into an orphanage. Due to her skin condition vitiligo, she was treated as inferior and was called the devil’s child. In the years before she was adopted by the DePrince family, she was systematically bullied and ignored. She survived by holding on to a dream to become a prima ballerina. Although she succeeded, the way she was treated marked her for the rest of her life and undoubtedly led to the death of her body. Words matter…
2-Color silkscreen print, spray paint and collage on delicate Japanese paper