DYNAMITE HILL LIBRARY
Oil on Wood Panel, 4x4 ft., 2024.
$4,000
Dynamite Hill Library is a snapshot of a woman connected to the real world and the imagined one.
The title of this piece is a reference to Birmingham, Alabama. An area that was consistently ravaged by the Ku Klux Klan’s terrorism. Homes were torn down and rebuilt, only to be bombed again. One neighborhood was so treacherous that it was given the moniker, “Dynamite Hill.” This is the world where American Activist and Writer, Angela Davis, was born.
……………………………Inspirations for the story of “Dynamite Hill Library.”
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In the world that I imagined, which became the story of the painting, was one in which a woman’s home is stripped bare. Furnishings are missing. The faded yellow wallpaper peels from the surfaces of the room.
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She is naked, like the room. But, she saved the books.
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She has built her own throne with novels and poetry. Volumes of ideas are stacked like an architectural feat. She has built her own structural support with words. She can be at peace on Dynamite Hill because the library is still standing.
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