Unearthed

Working directly from the archive, Unearthed repurposes a late 1800’s photograph of workers extracting tar at the Pitch Lake during the period of British colonialism in Trinidad, overlaying it with an abstract figure which emerges from the lake and expands past the frame of the image. Archival image from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library. (1899). Pitch Lake, Trinidad