Installation reflecting on the significance of the lack of presence and representations of black individuals at the Rhode Island School of Design given the legacy of black bodies’ roles in building and supporting Providence. By temporarily re-defining students’ and faculty’s view from a window overlooking Market Square– a former slave market– the piece creates a moment of remembrance and contemplation of this history in contrast with the current scarcity of black individuals on RISD campus. Glass functions as a quiet and unobtrusive medium through which this reflection was provoked. 

what is this body sans history/what is this history sans body/what is this blackness sans presence/what is this presence sans blackness