Mapping Blackness: Black Middle Class Complacency (photoshop mock up)
2007
Excerpt from Janera Solomon's review:
This is a map, hand-drawn on the wall, that literally charts the route to freedom --defined by Williams as "financial stability, social and physical mobility[,] as well as the luxury to imagine and live a self determined existence." The work is an ongoing investigation -- "experiments," says Williams, with architectural scale and perspective and the ways in which places and spaces construct our personal identity, sense of place and freedom. The map includes a "You are here" box, located by a seated male figure; from there, a line traces toward the floor, where appears the phrase "You are already free." Williams seems to suggest that because ideas about what "freedom" means can change, the quest is necessarily never-ending.