The Means to an End...A Shadow Drama in Five Acts, 1995

The Means to an End...A Shadow Drama in Five Acts, according to the artist, “presents a panoramic view of an antebellum swampland wherein mythic and stereotypic characters, Negro and otherwise, respond to outrageous demands with benign passivity. Illicit sex and violence are suggested as the means by which freedom is attained. The Master/slave narrative is expanded and inverted to include authoritarian control over children, the landscape, and the self. From left to right this suite of aquatints reads like the table of contents in a romantic novel: The Beginning, The Hunt, The Chase, The Plunge, The End. The remainder of the story is couched in polite silence—the kind of silence which harbors racism, distrust, fear, and intense and obsessive love.”