The High Cotton Project is an abstract examination of the horrors of chattel slavery in the southeastern United States. In this project, stunning visual analogies will be sculpted and fabricated to convey the horrific, irreparable psychological damage that has resulted from the economic blueprint of the plantation.
This project requires intense community cooperation. Participants will be asked to meet at a location, agree to have his/her head shaven completely bald and have a photograph taken by a professional photographer after the hair is removed. Both the shaven hair and the portraits of the volunteers will then be used in a gallery space as part of the abstract art installation. A video camera will also be present to document each individual cutting session. The footage of each session will be used as material to produce a short film.
The intended result is that each participant becomes a walking memorial such that the stationary art installation then transforms itself into a collective of living monuments that represent remembrance, healing and defiance.
The dates, times and locations of the photo sessions will be announced on October 31, 2013. These photo sessions will continue every weekend in Crown Heights, Brooklyn from the announced date up until March 31, 2014.
For inquiries, send an email to highcottonproject@gmail.com
or https://www.facebook.com/highcottonproject
http://highcottonproject.tumblr.com/
Thank you,
Submitted by:
David Booker Ogunde
Urban Soul Farmer 
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