Elizabeth Katt
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I see you, 2021

prescription eyeglasses, acrylic paint
5 x 5 in.
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I am a white woman in the United States. I cannot begin to understand the life experiences of a black person in the United States.  I see from the outside and empathize with the burdens they bear today, and the history of abuses suffered at the hands of whiteness since colonization hit North America.
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In the work, “I see you”, I reveal the lenses I look through when seeing Black America around and beside me. I hope through these lenses, the person in front of me will be seen in all the beauty of their present self while acknowledging their current struggles and generational trauma. I want the person to know that I want for them what I want for every human: shelter, food, freedom, voice, opportunity, joy, love, justice, equality, self-determination.  I work for racial justice in the ways I am able because I desire to live in the country I was told existed in the United States after the successes of the Civil Rights Movement. I have learned that there is so much more progress to be made. Racial justice and equality work is far from over. 
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