Camille Billops
For Japanese Mirrors
Etching
16 3/4 x 22 inches
Edition of 30
Published by Brandywine Workshop and Archives, Philadelphia.
Versatile artist Camille Billops created multiple versions of this work, including one in red, white, and blue. Combining image and text to explore notions of race, identity, and nationalism, Billops includes a reverse image of a Japanese poem which begins: “The blue-eyed black face and the slant-eyed kinky-haired/ dancing between gardens of racial purity; eating sushi and corn bread and listening to funky koto music...."
—Adapted and excerpted from https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/blackburn/blackburn-seeds.html, accessed 8-6-2021
Camille Billops' aesthetic choices and creative repertoire are bold and disruptive interpretations of contemporary issues. Straddling between abstraction, surrealism and documentary, Billops’ creative output challenges convention through the sheer act of production. Billops is a clairvoyant muse who brings us one and all into a reality seen only through her irrepressible eyes.
—Excerpted from http://billops-hatch.library.emory.edu/camille-billops-artist, accessed 6-4-2021
