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Ingram makes subversive social inquiries often reflecting ideas around race, gender, and social relationships. She created this striking portrait of Seattle abolitionists with captive birds of prey for a series entitled, A Book with No Pages. This work contrasts incarceration, domestication, cross-solidarities, natural and societal bonds.Label
In “Faisal and Aaron,” Ingram is challenging conventional notions of masculinity. The portrait shows two men standing on the shore of Lake Washington. Faisal wears a long raccoon pelt and tan cowboy hat, with an owl on his arm. Aaron dons an eggplant suit with a feathered collar. He also holds a bouquet of flowers.
“A lot of that imagery looks a little bit otherworldly mostly because of American racism, I would wager. Because we’re just not used to seeing Black bodies in the Pacific Northwest landscape and centered,”