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Sunday Night BBQ
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Mixed media on cardboard
2020
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This was inspired by a postcard I ran into while searching the web for historic photos. The postcard read, "This is the barbecue we had last night. My picture is to the left with a cross over it your son Joe."
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The lynched teenager was a seventeen year old African-American farmhand in Waco, Texas named Jesse Washington on May 15, 1916. A professional photographer was at the event printed and sold postcards of the horrific image.
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