Bodies of Water

Silkscreen and embossment

Embossed Text (from article by Jenna Brager)

“The oceans are full of bodies. This is nothing new; the currents are imbricated with centuries-old ghosts of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, the genocide of millions of Africans, the acceptable loss in the conversion of people into commodities. At Cape Horn, the particles of African ghosts mingle with the fragments of Chilean and Argentinean disappeared and whisper together of endemic violence. They are joined by the bodies of refugees turned away from shore, taken by the sea at the behest of state policy. The waters speak of the necro-political creation of disposable classes that are subject to vanishing. Disappearance is not just a euphemism for state murder; it’s intrinsic to capitalism’s need for disposable classes.”