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“In my work I often utilize laundry lines not only as a poetic symbol but also as a reference to proverbial domestic space and the working Black body. I construct these laundry lines with an assemblage of different fabrics from various jersey cottons to linens to expensive silks. In them different colored fabrics can highlight and play up the fashion of my subjects. Many photographers and artists before me have used the symbol of the laundry line in this similar vein. For example Gordon Parks in his ‘A Segregation Story’ series. Here I have created an installation of my photographs as a laundry line in order to return the subject matter of a lot of my work back to its original source material.” - Tyler Mitchell @tylersphotos

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