This work represents an alternate family tree for the Brown family of Providence, Rhode Island. Pulling from research, a line of related slaves owned by various members of the Brown Family is connected across this scroll. As the reader/viewer walks along its length, they reconstruct a family tree and move along a simulated street where the slaves’ names are privileged over their owners’. With minimal text stretched across a long surface bordered with sumptuous velvet, the book explores methods of reading and speaking about race.

Medium: cyanotype on fabric