Photograph Memorials

This work thinks with and about the work band aids do, stitches—how breast cancer and its treatments pierce the Black body, how we remember and memorialize those we have lost, and racism as its own kind of death (after Ruth Wilson Gilmore) which contributes to Black women contracting breast cancer in the first place as well as dying from it at the highest rate of any demographic group. We paper over and put band aids on racism (medical, environmental, and other forms) instead of dealing with, by which I mean eradicating it and DIE as a result.

This work marks a series within the larger series of The Cancer Quilts of woven or hand-sewn photograph memorials to all of the Black women that we have lost to this disease, known and unknown.