INVISIBLE EMPIRE
"Georgia is beautiful. Yet on its beauty rest something disturbing and strange." -- W.E.B. Du Bois
#1960NOW II
TODAY
I cried today
I thought of the elders who fought during the Civil Rights Era
Imagine their trauma
I thought of my parents, young people who endure the Jim Crow era
Imagine their trauma
I thought of the young visionaries who are fighting the same injustices today
Imagine their trauma
I thought of my ancestors, who were forced to come to a country to be sold as property
Imagine their trauma
I cry today because we lost a spirit who continue to fight the good fight
Imagine his trauma
He now knows what liberation looks like
I cried today
-Sheila Pree Bright
#1960NOW PORTRAITS
Click here for #1960Now installation at Riverside Art Museum, CA until March 2021
Grillz is a body of photographic portraits of black males who wear their gold teeth as a connection to an African culture long past. Within the Hip Hop community, however, gold teeth have become signifiers of a lifestyle, status, or “manhood,” all questioning the notion of what is merely fashionable and what is culture.