Mrs. White Wings

Transcript:

Shawnta Smith-Cruz: In this one, I see this burst of color. I also see the contrast of the color from the variation of the images, and there's also a holistic-like container for which everything is organized. So, definitely, tell us how you're envisioning the story that this image tells.

Jacqueline Bishop: Well, what I was getting at is that there are more images created from this project than what is being showcased. Yet I was glad for the choices that a group made in the images that they chose. This image, in particular, is Wall Street, early Wall Street, and the European woman who is selling, (of course, I do a lot of work around market women) is paying homage, and it's part of the roots of Wall Street. But when I look at this image as well, and so, of course, there's the plants and the fruits and the flowers that are indigenous to New York. That is the burst of colors.

But for once, I got to place in a position of power over all of this, an Indigenous woman, and that seemed very important to me. Number one, because finding images of Indigenous women are just really, really, really hard, and when you do find images, they are in subjugation. Well, in this image, she is the one in power, and Wall Street, and everything that came with it is reliant on her knowledge and use of the land to become what it would become, so thank you so much.