Word: necks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...another wall, a two-headed woman leaps through the air, with the head and neck of a white woman attached to the crown of her nappy-haired head. The delicate position of her arms and the grace of her ballet-like leap imply that she, like the waltzing couple, finds pride in her appearance. Perhaps, she is unaware of her second head. More likely, considering her posture, she is proud to have garnished a European head, and is unaware of her deformity. Even more disconcerting, perhaps she acknowledges her deformity, and considers it a small price...
Across from her, the silhouette of a black woman stands over that of a young black girl, watching intently as the girl holds a knife to the neck of a crouching white woman. The girl looks back expectantly to the adult black woman, who is holding a threaded needle and a severed head of another black woman cradled in her arms. Clearly, an exchange is about to be made. But for whom? Perhaps, the black woman holding the head is replacing the white woman's head with that of another black woman, in order to become the two-headed woman...
...some knife or saw to her throat. The characters are so finely drawn that we can make out the contour of the girl's toenail, but though we see one foot we're unsure of where the other falls. Similarly, we can't determine the relationship of blade to neck, the difference between "grazing" and "penetrating" so important to the woman's life and our understanding. These spatial contiguities are lost somewhere in the details of overlap which Walker's silhouettes refuse to disclose...
Several blocks away from Daniel, as elderly gentleman with a neck-brace, cane, and knapsack sits on a bench outside the Harvard Square MBTA station entrance...
Cooper says he is also HIV positive, and has abroken neck from an old bone infection that heclaims "doctors ignored because they thought I wastrying to get more pain medication out of them...