Head Dressed

Ref Image 2020.0009

Ref Image 2020.0009

Name/Title

Head Dressed

Entry/Object ID

2020.0009

Type of Print

Lithograph

Made/Created

Artist

Cave, Nick

Date made

2019

Dimensions

Height

29-3/4 in

Width

20-3/4 in

Dimension Notes

Image Size: 29.75" x 20.75"

Interpretative Labels

Label

Print is inspired by his Soundsuits which were initially conceived by Cave as a "kind of race-,class- and gender scuring armature, one that's both insulating and isolating, an articulation of his profound sense of vulnerability as a black man." W.E.B. DuBois wrote of the double consciousness-- the psycological adjustments black Americans make in order to survive. Cave began making his Soundsuits after the 1991 beating of Rodney King by the Los Angeles Police Department and he began questioning how he would exist in a "placee that sees me as a threat."