Surface Graphics
Hand-drawn, digital, 18x42
Personal Project
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/gqKlKniB85c https://www.youtube.com/shorts/gqKlKniB85c "Indigo's Journey" Site-Specific Indigo-dyed fabric installed on trees and bushes at Guana Tolomato Matanzas National Estuarine Research Reserve "Grant’s Villa, the indigo plantation owned by Governor James Grant, was a 1,450-acre tract located approximately six miles northwest of St. Augustine. The tract was bounded east and south by the Guana River, west by the North River, and north by vacant land. Beginning in 1768, Grant’s enslaved Africans cleared six-hundred acres for indigo cultivation. Indigo weed was processed into dye at six sets of vats spread out among the fields. Structures at the plantation included two dwellings and a kitchen for the overseer and his assistants, stables for horses and other plantation work animals, a blacksmith shop, a large barn and indigo house, fowl and pigeon coops, and houses for the enslaved black men and women. In his memorial to the East F
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