{"product_id":"tangled-narratives-by-ann-silverman","title":"Tangled Narratives by Ann Silverman","description":"\u003cp\u003ehandmade paper, thread, and tracing paper\u003cbr\u003e15” x 12” x 2”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAbsence of Attention\u003cbr\u003eThe works in the six box frames are archives of two previous installations. The first installation was a body of work called The Journal Project which was built around my grandmother and her journals which she insisted be destroyed. I sewed paper, that included shreds of the journals, to tatting and then suspended it all the length of a gallery. That installation was titled Prayer Flags. Shortly after the murder of George Floyd, when white people, some of them, were beginning to examine their privileged place within society, I reexamined my own heritage in South Carolina, where my grandmother was born. In my research I came across interviews with former slaves that were collected in 1936 – 1938 by The Federal Writers’ Project, of the Work Progress Administration. There are 285 of them from South Carolina. In the second installation I strung the papers along the wall and tied 285 little scrolls representing each narrative to the tatting. That installation was titled Prayers and Debts.  I refer to this archive of boxes as Slave Narratives and Old Lace.  I could, in more lengthy fashion call it “Interviews with Formerly Enslaved People Compiled by White Men, and The Journals and Old Lace of a Southern White Woman”. Each piece is now individually titled. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Edward A. Dixon Gallery","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47981839057070,"sku":null,"price":600.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/1311\/0958\/files\/rn-image_picker_lib_temp_1b09f6e5-fada-423c-bd89-4d5747fda5a7.jpg?v=1781369970","url":"https:\/\/shop.eadgallery.com\/products\/tangled-narratives-by-ann-silverman","provider":"Edward A. Dixon Gallery","version":"1.0","type":"link"}