Title Information
Title
From Absence to Presence, The Commemorative to Enslaved Peoples of Southern Maryland (St. Mary's College of Maryland)
Name: Personal (Local)
Name Part
Allbritton, Shane
Name Part: Date
1974-
Role
Role Term: Text (marcrelator)
sculptor
Name: Personal (naf) (valueURI="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2005045806", authorityURI="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names.html")
Name Part
Ater, Renée
Name Part: Date
1965-
Role
Role Term: Text (marcrelator)
Creator
Name: Personal (Local)
Name Part
Baker, Quenton
Name Part: Date
1985-
Role
Role Term: Text (marcrelator)
poet
Name: Personal (Local)
Name Part
Lee, Norman
Name Part: Date
1972-
Role
Role Term: Text (marcrelator)
sculptor
Type of Resource (primo) (authorityURI="https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Primo/Product_Documentation/020Primo_VE/Primo_VE_(English)/100Loading_Records_from_External_Sources_into_Primo_VE/Configuring_Normalization_Rules_for_External_Resources_(Primo_VE)#Supported_Resource_Types_in_Primo_VE")
images
Genre (aat) (valueURI="http://vocab.getty.edu/page/aat/300046300", authorityURI="https://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/aat/")
photographs
Abstract: general (displayLabel="Scope and Contents note")
The installation is shaped to evoke the frame of a slave cabin, constructed from alternating horizontal rows of wooden clapboards and mirror-polished, stainless-steel panels. The reflective surfaces mirror the surrounding environment, while the hollow interior, which is inaccessible to the public, suggests a private space for reflection and introspection. Inscribed across the stainless-steel panels are redacted text from slave advertisements and runaway slave notices from Southern Maryland—erasure poetry by Quenton Baker—that extend across the walls and roof, weaving erased memory and acts of commemoration into the entire structure.
Note: image_accessibility_alt_text
The commemorative is constructed from alternating horizontal rows of clapboards and mirror-polished, stainless-steel panels
Note: preferredcitation
From Absence to Presence, The Commemorative to Enslaved Peoples of Southern Maryland (St. Mary's College of Maryland), Brown University Library
Origin Information
Date Created
November 20, 2020
Date Created: Start (encoding="w3cdtf", keyDate="yes")
2020-11-20
Place
Place Term: Text (naf) (authorityURI="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names.html", valueURI="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86106954")
St. Mary's City (Md.)
Access Condition: rights statement (href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/")
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Access Condition: restriction on access
Collection is open for research.
Identifier: Local (displayLabel="filename")
from-absence-to-presence-2020
Note (displayLabel="Digital object made available by")
Brown University Library, Center for Digital Scholarship, Box A, Brown University, Providence, RI, 02912, U.S.A., (http://library.brown.edu/)