Emerging

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    Photo: Stephen Pitkin/Pitkin Studio
1987
Sawdust and glue relief with pigment on wood with wood frame
14.5 x 20 inches
Collection of
Souls Grown Deep Foundation
Description

Pieces such as Emerging, with its infants cartwheeling along a supreme umbilical cord, and Entanglement, with its hermaphroditic, intertwined adults, display Byron's interest in both the nearness and the difference of the sexes. Made at the height of his immersion in contentious local politics, these pieces, like the Anatomy series, see beyond the fractiousness of race.