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This block depicts four distinct scenes, yet they are part of the same world. Placid scenes of rural and urban Iowa, set side by side alongside depictions of white Iowans in the process of buying and selling African people. This goal of this block is to challenge the illusion of innocence that has colored our reality of slave auctions and all other dehumanizing and violent aspects of the slave trade. The juxtaposed images of Iowan rural life and images of the Iowan slave trade evokes tension and conflict under an apparent calm. In what ways are we complicit in this calm, and in what ways can we challenge it?
Title Windows
creator Esther Hwang (Grinnell College Class of 2019)
Advisor Edouard Duval-Carrié
Faculty Advisor Fredo Rivera (Grinnell College Class of 2006)
Supporting Host Department of Art and Art History
Index Date 2017
Date (Other) Fall 2017
Publisher Grinnell College
Keyword Slavery
Keyword Slaves
Keyword Slave Auction
Keyword America
Keyword Slave Trade
Keyword Haiti
Geographic United States
Temporal 1800-1860
Type of Resource Still Image
Genre Visual Art
Medium Resin block with mixed media
Extent 13 x 15 x 1.75 inches
Media Type image/tiff
Digital Origin digitized other analog
Language English
Identifier (local) 007-015
Physical Location Grinnell College, 1226 Park Street, Grinnell IA 50112
Related Item Digital Grinnell
Access Condition Copyright to this work is held by the author(s), in accordance with United States copyright law (USC 17). Readers of this work have certain rights as defined by the law, including but not limited to fair use (17 USC 107 et seq.).
Identifier (hdl) http://hdl.handle.net/11084/25496
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