https://padlet.com/nayelimartinez1/8ob53o4o66fpzsu2 :) en-us 2020-12-07 18:19:49 UTC 2025-12-29 01:33:14 UTC hello@padlet.com nayelimartinez1 https://padlet.com/nayelimartinez1/8ob53o4o66fpzsu2/wish/995342158 2020-12-07 18:21:21 UTC https://padlet.com/nayelimartinez1/8ob53o4o66fpzsu2/wish/995342158 nayelimartinez1 https://padlet.com/nayelimartinez1/8ob53o4o66fpzsu2/wish/995361914 “In Lorna Simpson’s collages … black women’s heads of hair are galaxies unto themselves, solar systems, moonscapes, volcanic interiors … It is sinuous and cloudy and fully alive … Watercolor is the perfect medium for Simpson here because of how it holds light and appears to be translucent. But it is also a wash, a shadow cast over what we cannot know in these women.” 

The different media used by photographer Simpson in each of her collages helps despite a theme. In this case, Simpson used watercolor to represent galaxies and solar systems. Simpson did this to show that these women are more than the cultural identity they have with their hair.


]]> 2020-12-07 18:25:04 UTC https://padlet.com/nayelimartinez1/8ob53o4o66fpzsu2/wish/995361914 nayelimartinez1 https://padlet.com/nayelimartinez1/8ob53o4o66fpzsu2/wish/995363154 "In another interview with the Art Hoe Collective, Simpson described a frequent question she’s asked: “‘What is it like to make work that has black content?’…When I get up in the mirror, I don’t look at black content. I look at myself.” To reference the self, devoid of any instances of “othering” from a myopic, inevitably white lens, is also to gain the freedom of omnipresence"

Simpson sees herself and her artwork as more than just a race. She focuses on the beauty of these people but doesn't focus on the fact that they are black. They are so much more than that, and Simpson does a lovely job portraying that in her photographs. ]]> 2020-12-07 18:25:19 UTC https://padlet.com/nayelimartinez1/8ob53o4o66fpzsu2/wish/995363154 nayelimartinez1 https://padlet.com/nayelimartinez1/8ob53o4o66fpzsu2/wish/995365337 "There are men, too (I counted 18), with pompadours and afros painted with ice cream scoop flourishes." 

As well as empowering black women through her photographs she does the same with men. She uses the same concept of replacing their hair with something else. In the case of the quote, Simpson replaces the men's hair with scoops of ice cream. In some way, she doesn't want their hair to consume their whole identity.  ]]> 2020-12-07 18:25:43 UTC https://padlet.com/nayelimartinez1/8ob53o4o66fpzsu2/wish/995365337 nayelimartinez1 https://padlet.com/nayelimartinez1/8ob53o4o66fpzsu2/wish/995365993 "The collage is the latest in Simpson’s Riunite & Iceseries, in which the same cutout appears in serial repetition, each time her head encapsulated by something preternatural and fey: paint black as squid-ink, a milk-colored moon, crystal shards, or clouds, with a ladder leading to where her shoulder might be, the woman her own skybound destination."

The way she makes these women and men is incredible. The amount of precision and time required to do what she does is admirable. Also, the movement she can manage to create which each photograph is very beautiful it just ties the whole piece together. ]]> 2020-12-07 18:25:50 UTC https://padlet.com/nayelimartinez1/8ob53o4o66fpzsu2/wish/995365993 nayelimartinez1 https://padlet.com/nayelimartinez1/8ob53o4o66fpzsu2/wish/995366933 She is most well known for her powerful artworks that combine photographs with words. In these works she questions and challenges narrow and conventional ideas about women, culture, and race. Because she uses photography to explore ideas rather than just taking photos of things she sees around her, she is sometimes described as a conceptual photographer. Lorna Simpson was one of a group of artists who became well known in the 1980s for exploring themes and ideas relating to identity politics in their work. Identity politics focuses on the lives and experiences of those who are often marginalized in society such as Black people, women, and gay people. Identity politics aims to make others aware of the issues and unfairness that these marginalized people have to face. 

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