Black Woman, This Is NOT Your Last Supper
Collage


Art has always been a form of documenting the human experience, but who’s story is centered and why? Juxtaposing people and events from different periods and places, mixed media artist Shea Justice creates new timelines of American history that challenge dominant narratives about the American experience by acknowledging its inherent violence.

“Black Woman, this is NOT your Last Supper” comments on African American experiences within American history. By overlapping images from popular culture that glorify drugs, alcohol, gambling, and guns with pained faces and malnourished bodies, it emphasizes the negative impact of U.S. policies and practices on Black lives both here and abroad. Add into the mix the increase of toxic ideologies and self-hate, and the hazards become boundless. Unless a new balance is found and truth is rediscovered, it may really be the “last” supper

“Through the medium of collage, I’m able to place figures from the past in new contexts that show their relevance to events happening today.” 

—Shea Justice