Black and white collaged photography and acrylic paint is used to deliver the “drip and drizzle’ technique,
The intensity of the constant awareness of the white gaze is an overwhelming lens through which the black girl here sees and an is seen. This painting refers to how the natural behavior of a black person is altered due to the observation and judgement (and persecution) of colonizers (or white) people. Walking a proverbial 'chalk line' and explaining that which is obvious to our people because of the expectation that the viewer or reader is white… other than we are. Toni Morrison refers to the white gaze as, “The little white man that sits on your shoulder and checks out everything you do or say.”
