Projected onto a chalkboard, in a semi-classroom setting as a re-education of things that aren’t learned in school, this silent animation examines Whiteness as invented through the legal system.
Referencing White by Law, by Ian Haney Lopez, as a guide point, this didactic animation illustrates the four methods the legal system used to determine race, followed by an overview of significant cases. The Individuals involved in these cases are unknown heroes because they argued for equal rights. The effects of these ruling are perpetuated in modern day society. My desire as an artist was to make visible this significant history.
Much of the animations are literally written into being through drawing and writing that appear, as animated, onto book and paper forms. Other animation techniques used in this include: frame by frame metamorphosis, silhouettes puppets, painted cells, and cut paper cutouts (many from history books).
Referencing White by Law, by Ian Haney Lopez, as a guide point, this didactic animation illustrates the four methods the legal system used to determine race, followed by an overview of significant cases. The Individuals involved in these cases are unknown heroes because they argued for equal rights. The effects of these ruling are perpetuated in modern day society. My desire as an artist was to make visible this significant history.
Much of the animations are literally written into being through drawing and writing that appear, as animated, onto book and paper forms. Other animation techniques used in this include: frame by frame metamorphosis, silhouettes puppets, painted cells, and cut paper cutouts (many from history books).
