handmade paper, mulberry paper, thread and pencil
60" x 36"
WAITING
The silhouette in this wall hanging is from a photograph I have of a young African American girl waiting to make paper with me at an Okra Festival in Alabama. Though she was just waiting for her turn, I began to think of all the times in the South that black people were told to ‘wait’. …to wait for integration to just develop, …to wait for their rights as American citizens…