{"id":32011,"date":"2013-07-01T17:18:51","date_gmt":"2013-07-01T17:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=32011"},"modified":"2015-11-01T17:23:09","modified_gmt":"2015-11-01T17:23:09","slug":"self-portraits-of-an-african-canadian-dressed-as-her-white-ancestors-explores-her-mixed-heritage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=32011","title":{"rendered":"Self Portraits of an African-Canadian Dressed as Her White Ancestors Explores Her Mixed Heritage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.featureshoot.com\/2013\/07\/self-portraits-of-an-african-canadian-dressed-as-her-white-ancestors-explores-her-mixed-heritage\/\" target=\"_blank\">Self Portraits of an African-Canadian Dressed as Her White Ancestors Explores Her Mixed Heritage<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.featureshoot.com\" target=\"_blank\">feature shoot<\/a><br \/>\n2013-07-01<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/kerenmoscovitch.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Keren Moscovitch<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Brooklyn-based photographer <a href=\"http:\/\/staceytyrell.com\/home.html\" target=\"_blank\">Stacey Tyrell\u2019s<\/a> series Backra Bluid is a dramatic investigation of the artist\u2019s own mixed heritage and the colonialized experiences of non-whites. As an African-Canadian, whose family most recently hails from the Caribbean, she is brutally aware of the English\/Scottish\/Irish blood in her veins\u2014the ubiquitous reality lived by people who are labeled as \u201cblack\u201d in the West.<\/p>\n<p>Tyrell poses herself as women and girls of various ages, dressed in the outfits of her white ancestors. She displays ambiguous racial features achieved through an elegant combination of lighting, costuming, make-up and digital retouching. The images are inspired by formal Western painting, a nod to the imperialism to which the project refers.<\/p>\n<p>Drawing from the self-portraiture tradition of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cindy_Sherman\" target=\"_blank\">Cindy Sherman<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nikki_S._Lee\" target=\"_blank\">Niki S. Lee<\/a>, she combs public records for historical data to add dimension to her characters, such as names carefully curated from Scottish baby registries and the US Social Security Administration. The series is tinged with discomfort, anger and shame, sentiments that are repeatedly mirrored in the cold stares and tense facial expressions of her characters&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.featureshoot.com\/2013\/07\/self-portraits-of-an-african-canadian-dressed-as-her-white-ancestors-explores-her-mixed-heritage\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self Portraits of an African-Canadian Dressed as Her White Ancestors Explores Her Mixed Heritage feature shoot 2013-07-01 Keren Moscovitch Brooklyn-based photographer Stacey Tyrell\u2019s series Backra Bluid is a dramatic investigation of the artist\u2019s own mixed heritage and the colonialized experiences of non-whites. As an African-Canadian, whose family most recently hails from the Caribbean, she is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,8,20],"tags":[15075,15076,147,15077],"class_list":["post-32011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-feature-shoot","tag-keren-moscovitch","tag-photography","tag-stacey-tyrell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32011"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43666,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32011\/revisions\/43666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}