32. Triangle Trade 

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32. Triangle Trade 

Date: 2011

Dimensions: 5ft x 5ft 5in

Medium: Unprimed canvas stitched with cotton thread and cornrowed

Description: Geometric abstraction is used as a tool to speak of the Triangle Trade Route or Transatlantic Slave trade route. The route is marked in a concentric cornrowed line from Africa to the Americas to Europe and results in a knot in the middle. The hairstyling techniques are a synecdoche for forcibly migrated people.