フィラデルフィア美術館さんのインスタグラム写真 - (フィラデルフィア美術館Instagram)「Lonnie Holley is a prolific visual artist and musician born in 1950 in Birmingham, Alabama. His found-object artworks touch on many different aspects of Southern Black life. One of his works, “Protecting Myself the Best I can” is an exercise in recontextualization. An older female neighbor of Holley’s kept makeshift weapons in a terracotta pipe by her front door as protection in case of an intruder. When the neighbor moved away, Holley recovered the pieces and put them in an artistic context, shifting the understanding of the weapons from objects kept in fear to a monument to his neighbor’s resilience and independence. See this piece and others by Holley in “Souls Grown Deep: Artists of the African American South” in the Perelman Building through Sept 2. • “Protecting Myself the Best I can (Weapons by the Door),” 1995, by Lonnie Holley © Lonnie Holley/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.」7月12日 0時31分