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HAVE YOU HEARD!?! HAVE YOU HEARD!?! HAVE YOU HEARD!?! WHAT HAPPENED TO A MAN NAMED JAMES T. BYRD?!?! TERRACOTTA PLACED IN FRONT OF A MIRROR by SERINITY KNIGHT [C] 2002 [ALL RIGHTS RESERVED]. MEMORIAL DEDICATED TOT THE BEATING - LYNCHING AND DRAGGING DEATH OF JAMES T. BYRD IN JASPER TEXAS, 1998. Once Upon A Time In Jasper, Texas: There was a man named [...]
HAVE YOU HEARD!?! HAVE YOU HEARD!?! HAVE YOU HEARD!?! WHAT HAPPENED TO A MAN NAMED JAMES T. BYRD?!?! TERRACOTTA PLACED IN FRONT OF A MIRROR by SERINITY KNIGHT [C] 2002 [ALL RIGHTS RESERVED]
MEMORIAL DEDICATED TOT THE BEATING - LYNCHING AND DRAGGING DEATH OF JAMES T. BYRD IN JASPER TEXAS, 1998.
Once Upon A Time In Jasper, Texas: There was a man named JAMES 'T' BYRD - who was beaten up and chained to the back of a pick up truck and dragged on a street until his dismembered body broke in half as the blunt force of hitting a concrete slab buried in the ground sent parts of his body to scatter about. This incident was just too much for me to stomach and too much for me to sit back idly and not go shortly after and pay a visit to JASPER, Texas. It was weird - a place that stood still in time of racist history [not unfamiliar as to my travels through out the United States], as the KKK met up to rally everyday against the NEW BLACK PANTHER PARTY. I drove down that road and felt every scrape, bump and decapitation.
This incident - this experience - well - It changed me and my purpose driven life forever. But the experience only got deeper a few years later when I myself was the intended victim of a HATE CRIME that happened just before the events of 9/11/2001. To say the least - I might have felt JAMES 'T' BYRD in my sleep in 1998, but I felt his spirit in 2001 as I was the only black person amongst about 15 to 20 whites and 2 Asian's - my closest friends [who were also intended victims prior to my getting their]. When I first started working their I was the INVISIBLE WOMAN - no one spoke to me or felt I had any relevance until they saw my work ethic and my works. One day I got an emergency call from one of my white friends who witnessed an incident to hurry and come to the shared studio space to look at the vandalism of my work area. It had been spray painted black along with a few words and my some of my bigger works left out to slowly dry were nearly destroyed. A male figure sculpture I built from the ground up took the majority of the hits as it was violently attacked by punches, kicks, rips and pieces scattered all over the place .... The hairs on the back of my head stood up as I felt the touch of JAMES 'T' BYRD'S SPIRIT - Saying: PLEASE NEVER - EVER LET THE WORLD FORGET ABOUT ME!!! At that very moment I began picking up the pieces of that figure sculpture - parts of the torso were over here, his face was over there, his testicles were on top of there, his arm was hanging under there, his buttocks smashed on one side and crumbled on the other, his lips twisted as his head was beyond recognition ....
I knew this attack was meant to destroy and shatter me but it actually became a twist of fate: and made me. It was one of those HAPPY ACCIDENTS those of us who work in clay eventually come to know about. I took what was meant for evil and made it into a reflection of those who were now trying to attack me - SIMPLY BECAUSE I WAS BORN BOLD - BEAUTIFUL - & - YOUNG - BLACK & TRULY GIFTED... [Hey it was not my fault - the creator made me this way]. RACISM has taken so many of my family members - cut down to the bone... The KLAN took so many of my family members out! HATE & WHITE SUPREMACY has taken so many of us out!
The FBI became my best friends and so did the media as in my story did get aired on CNN Headline news and my voice was broadcast around the clock on NPR RADIO [when all hell broke loose]. I thought it so funny that when people think they are scaring you off by their antics leads them to be in a national scandal they then become afraid of you. At least that was how i came to be the ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM and like MOSES PARTING THE RED SEA as people moved out of my way whenever I arrived on the scene cuz they knew HOMEY DON"T PLAY DAT!!! I'm a MICHIGANDER a NORTHERN NEGRESS from the WOLVERINE STATE - you don't mess with a WOLVERINE if you know what I mean?!?
Alas - I kept my promise not only to JAMES 'T' BYRD but everyone else whose life was endured and ended in the tragedy of HATE. Because of JTB - My art changed as I finally knew my direction and purpose - TO MEMORIALIZE THOSE WHO ARE/WERE VICTIMS/INTENDED VICTIMS OF HATE - SEX - RACIAL CRIMES IN THE WORLD. I began this journey purging the scars made upon myself and my own family members and friends, which freed me to depict the scars upon the rest of our in-humanity. We never know why we are called to experience life altering - crushing things, but it is how we react to them while we are going thru the storms of life that will dictate our own learning and also the rest of our lives. Wounded but not dead - we must trudge ahead!!!!
LIFE CAN MAKE YOU BITTER OR IT CAN MAKE YOU BETTER .... From The BUTTERFLY MONOLOGUES OF A RED NEGRESS - SERINITY KNIGHT [all rights reserved] [C] 2011
MEMORIAL DEDICATED TOT THE BEATING - LYNCHING AND DRAGGING DEATH OF JAMES T. BYRD IN JASPER TEXAS, 1998.
Once Upon A Time In Jasper, Texas: There was a man named JAMES 'T' BYRD - who was beaten up and chained to the back of a pick up truck and dragged on a street until his dismembered body broke in half as the blunt force of hitting a concrete slab buried in the ground sent parts of his body to scatter about. This incident was just too much for me to stomach and too much for me to sit back idly and not go shortly after and pay a visit to JASPER, Texas. It was weird - a place that stood still in time of racist history [not unfamiliar as to my travels through out the United States], as the KKK met up to rally everyday against the NEW BLACK PANTHER PARTY. I drove down that road and felt every scrape, bump and decapitation.
This incident - this experience - well - It changed me and my purpose driven life forever. But the experience only got deeper a few years later when I myself was the intended victim of a HATE CRIME that happened just before the events of 9/11/2001. To say the least - I might have felt JAMES 'T' BYRD in my sleep in 1998, but I felt his spirit in 2001 as I was the only black person amongst about 15 to 20 whites and 2 Asian's - my closest friends [who were also intended victims prior to my getting their]. When I first started working their I was the INVISIBLE WOMAN - no one spoke to me or felt I had any relevance until they saw my work ethic and my works. One day I got an emergency call from one of my white friends who witnessed an incident to hurry and come to the shared studio space to look at the vandalism of my work area. It had been spray painted black along with a few words and my some of my bigger works left out to slowly dry were nearly destroyed. A male figure sculpture I built from the ground up took the majority of the hits as it was violently attacked by punches, kicks, rips and pieces scattered all over the place .... The hairs on the back of my head stood up as I felt the touch of JAMES 'T' BYRD'S SPIRIT - Saying: PLEASE NEVER - EVER LET THE WORLD FORGET ABOUT ME!!! At that very moment I began picking up the pieces of that figure sculpture - parts of the torso were over here, his face was over there, his testicles were on top of there, his arm was hanging under there, his buttocks smashed on one side and crumbled on the other, his lips twisted as his head was beyond recognition ....
I knew this attack was meant to destroy and shatter me but it actually became a twist of fate: and made me. It was one of those HAPPY ACCIDENTS those of us who work in clay eventually come to know about. I took what was meant for evil and made it into a reflection of those who were now trying to attack me - SIMPLY BECAUSE I WAS BORN BOLD - BEAUTIFUL - & - YOUNG - BLACK & TRULY GIFTED... [Hey it was not my fault - the creator made me this way]. RACISM has taken so many of my family members - cut down to the bone... The KLAN took so many of my family members out! HATE & WHITE SUPREMACY has taken so many of us out!
The FBI became my best friends and so did the media as in my story did get aired on CNN Headline news and my voice was broadcast around the clock on NPR RADIO [when all hell broke loose]. I thought it so funny that when people think they are scaring you off by their antics leads them to be in a national scandal they then become afraid of you. At least that was how i came to be the ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM and like MOSES PARTING THE RED SEA as people moved out of my way whenever I arrived on the scene cuz they knew HOMEY DON"T PLAY DAT!!! I'm a MICHIGANDER a NORTHERN NEGRESS from the WOLVERINE STATE - you don't mess with a WOLVERINE if you know what I mean?!?
Alas - I kept my promise not only to JAMES 'T' BYRD but everyone else whose life was endured and ended in the tragedy of HATE. Because of JTB - My art changed as I finally knew my direction and purpose - TO MEMORIALIZE THOSE WHO ARE/WERE VICTIMS/INTENDED VICTIMS OF HATE - SEX - RACIAL CRIMES IN THE WORLD. I began this journey purging the scars made upon myself and my own family members and friends, which freed me to depict the scars upon the rest of our in-humanity. We never know why we are called to experience life altering - crushing things, but it is how we react to them while we are going thru the storms of life that will dictate our own learning and also the rest of our lives. Wounded but not dead - we must trudge ahead!!!!
LIFE CAN MAKE YOU BITTER OR IT CAN MAKE YOU BETTER .... From The BUTTERFLY MONOLOGUES OF A RED NEGRESS - SERINITY KNIGHT [all rights reserved] [C] 2011
CV/RESUME PROVIDED BY REQUEST. M.F.A Ceramic Sculpture / Restoration Arts / Experimental Studio 2006 . B.F.A Ceramics/Sculpture/Fibers /Metals/Glass 2002. COLLECTIONS:. My works are in corporate, private and [...]
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M.F.A Ceramic Sculpture / Restoration Arts / Experimental Studio 2006
B.F.A Ceramics/Sculpture/Fibers /Metals/Glass 2002
COLLECTIONS:
My works are in corporate, private and public collections and have been exhibited in galleries and museums throughout the United States and abroad including the State Departments Arts and Embassies Program in Accra, Ghana.
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