THE SLAVE GORDON, 2011
sugar (glucose, isomalt), resin sealing on canvas, 158 x 118 cm
Gordon was an enslaved African American who escaped from a Louisiana plantation in March 1863. The painting shows the scars of his back, drawn by lashes of the whip.
sugar (glucose, isomalt), resin sealing on canvas, 158 x 118 cm
Gordon was an enslaved African American who escaped from a Louisiana plantation in March 1863. The painting shows the scars of his back, drawn by lashes of the whip.