This fragment of art by the epitome of middle class white suburban taste superimposed upon a foggy monochrome by a young blackwomanembodies the aesthetic collisions that are so rewarding in her work.
Barkley Hendrick's Lawdy Mama embodies the «black is beautiful» mantra by conferring the awe and reverence once accorded Christian altarpieces on the figure of a beautiful woman crowned with a large, halo - like Afro.