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These works form part of a series that looks at walking as an exploration of time, and how sites are activated by the presence of a viewer. Created after nocturnal walks during an artist’s residency in rural Tuscany, I considered the environment of…

Eufronina Hisnard was a native to New Orleans, she was the daughter to Maria Grondel, described as “negre libre” and her father was Don Francisco Hisnard, making the daughter “mulata libre”. At fifteen years old, Eufronina becomes the concubine (not…

The extralegal liaisons of slave and free women of color offered more than just freedom, there are hundreds of wills, deeds, and inventories of estates containing property transferred from white European men to slave and free women of color and their…

“No be ganado mi libertad sobre las espaldas”, is based on the original oil painting by Marie Guihelmine Benoist (1768 - 1826), titled Portrait d'une Négresse. Benoist is a French female artist who comes from an aristocrat lineage and belong to a…

Senegal is a region in West Africa and supplied two-thirds of Louisiana African slaves during the French Slave Trade. All women came from the coast of Senegal were probably, most likely from the Wolof tribe of Senegal in Louisiana as slaves. Wolof…

The following is a conversation between two men walking the streets of New Orleans in the late eighteen century under Spanish colonization.
“Hah----what’s that. A fine figure, a beautiful foot, an ankle like an angel’s---an air quite distinque, and…

Some women had difficulty in their relationships with white European men, whereas others found considerable advantage. Any relationship where power is unequal as that between white men and women of color in the early Gulf ports was exploitative.…

Cecilia Indian Libre is part of the Afro-Indian creole culture in Louisiana. Creole stems from the Spanish Criollo, originally designated white children born in the Caribbean, and over time designate the entire French speaking population of…

Sans Luis La Nuit & Gota’s imagery is based from an Italian painter by the last name of titled “Three Women of Color with Their Children and Servants in a Landscape” conveying two sisters walking with their mother along with their children and…