Blog Post # 16 Carrie Mae Weems........

This artwork relates to me because it is showing a black man with whips,and cuts all over his back.This shows how blacks were treated during slavery,and it also shows my heritage ,and where I originally came from.The scripture says black and tanned which to me means black and trained to do anything.That's just a way of the owners trying to sell there slaves to people because it saying like there already trained to do whatever you say."YOUR WHIPPED WIND OF CHANGE HOLLOWED LOW" basically means that your crying of your whippings have stoped.As a result,this picture really means much to me and,I believe Carrie Mae Weems did the painting for the purpose of how blacks were treated during slavery.