The Threat Continues – Bite Back | Created by Zinda Foster from Seattle, WA.

The Threat Continues – Bite Back

Created by:

Zinda Foster from Seattle, WA

Exhibit:

Racism: In the Face of Hate We Resist

Artist Statement:

The challenges African Americans face are criminal. We have been forced to live with laws created by those fearing the loss of power, to which they claim entitlement due to being born white. These laws were designed to keep us in mental servitude, because they are undergirded by the peril of loss of liberty and loss of life. In every part of this country, the threat of incarceration has been “the knee on the throat” of those who sought to push back and challenge such laws as undemocratic, unethical, and unjust.

African American women have contributed to the fight for redress and reparation, from the history of the Virginia Slave codes of 1705 to New York’s groundbreaking 2011 Stop and Frisk law. We have stepped up and fought against armed vigilantism, unfair housing policies, over-incarceration and real freedom deferred. In actions big and small, African American women have resisted and challenged these repressive laws aimed at relegating our full rights as citizens to the margins, as well as killing our bodies and our souls.

It is with this is mind that I created this piece, which features an articulate, not-afraid-to-bite-back woman of courage.

2020
36" x 34"
African batiks, Dupioni silk, domestic cotton and batt; pieced cotton, appliqué, printed fabric, machine quilted.