Washington Redskins, circa 2016 (in the land of the freely oppressed)

The piece uses the concept of skin to highlight oppression and inequality in what is supposed to be land of the free - the United States of America. The frame represents a label - a box - that the woman is put in. She is labeled as beautiful and thus is nothing else. She does not have an important voice. Only her body/skin is valued by society. Outside of the frame there is an Native American head dress. The Native Americans were consistently lied to, taken advantage of, and murdered by the people and the government of the United States. They were derogatorily called "redskins" for the color of there skin. There is a football team still called the "Washington Redskins" - this is a point of contention and again a derogatory way to represent a tragic and disgusting piece of history - the genocide of millions of people and the subsequent and still ongoing oppression. The team resides in the capital of the United States - in a place where the constitution lives and where equality is supposed to live. A place where rich white men still make laws to become richer - this is represented by the hat on the left side of the photograph.