Artist Statement: 

     Mask Off is an original photo-based capture of a Black woman in the moving light of a flat-bed scanner collaged with the photograph of a mask worn during the Corona Virus pandemic. It is a metaphor for the pandemic of racial indifference and violence against Black people.

     In Western societies, especially in the US more Black men and boys are
killed and/or incarcerated than any other racial group. The pain of the women who birth them, love them, and bear their children are rarely acknowledged, and most often unbelieved. 'Mask Off' references those worn during the Corona Virus pandemic, and the continuing pandemic of racial indifference, and hostility.