Oscillating between two separate works, Thomas's painted homage to Sojourner
Truth's 1851 speech of Black female empowerment, «Ain't I a Woman,» and a religious altarpiece, Diptych presents the sexy, Black female body sculpted out of flat planes of
primary colors in two dimensions on the left (a gesture reminiscent of the painterly techniques of her idols Jacob Lawrence and Romare Bearden), and
in a televised two dimensions on the right.