Object Details
- Caption
- Our experiences and reactions to them are not isolated and frozen in time, but instead are carried throughout a course, a life and often times re-occur again and again. — Colette Veasey-Cullors
- Colette Veasey-Cullors explores race, class, and gender identities through her work. Insecurity Past, Insecurity Present and Insecurity Future are part of a larger series of works titled Metaphors and Life. Within these photographs, the female form is a metaphor that contains a range of human experiences and emotions, including pain, self-doubt, anxiety, and uncertainty, as well as resilience and courage. The triptych Past, Present and Future, and the emotions the photographs explore and convey, signify the emotional life experiences of yesterday, today, and tomorrow.
- Description
- A color photographic print of a nude female figure. She is seated on the ground in a cross-legged position with her shoulders hunched over and the top of her head facing the viewer. Her arms are tucked close to her body and her hands are held out in front of her, palms open, the right palm facing the side of her head, the left palm facing upward, fingers splayed. A gold ring is visible on her left hand. The tips of her fingers are bright red. Her skin is printed with a scale-like pattern. The figure is shown against a plain black background. The print is signed on the verso: [Colette Veasey-Cullors 2016].
- Data Source
- National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Created by
- Colette Veasey-Cullors, American, born 1967
- Date
- 2016
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Medium
- ink on photographic paper
- Dimensions
- H x W (Sheet): 22 × 17 in. (55.9 × 43.2 cm)
- H x W (Image): 21 × 14 in. (53.3 × 35.6 cm)
- Type
- inkjet prints
