- Created by
- Gbadebo, Adebunmi, American, born 1992
- Date
- 2019
- Medium
- mixed media: human hair, cotton, rice paper, denim, indigo, dye
- Dimensions
- H x W x D (overall install): 93 × 78 × 3 in. (236.2 × 198.1 × 7.6 cm)
- H x W x D (each frame): 30 × 25 × 2 1/2 in. (76.2 × 63.5 × 6.4 cm)
- Description
- This framed mixed media portrait by Adebunmi Gbadebo is a composition of screen-printed white hand-made paper, cotton, clumps and strands of black hair, and indigo dye with reproductions of documents related to the True Blue Planation. The edges of the portrait are rough. In the upper right corner is a bold indigo dye patch over a piece of a document with the text in a black text box reading [True Blue Plantation Hole #8]. In the bottom left corner is a printed photograph of what is presumably the True Blue Planter’s Residence. There is light indigo dye along the left bottom edge.
- Place depicted
- Beaufort County, South Carolina, United States, North and Central America
- Collection title
- I Sang The Blues Blackest: 18 Holes
- Portfolio/Series
- True Blue
- Classification
- Visual Arts
- Type
- multimedia works
- Topic
- African diaspora
- Art
- Barbershops
- Hair
- Men
- Trans Atlantic slave trade
- U.S. History, 2001-
- Women
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture purchased with funds provided by the Smithsonian Latino Initiatives Pool, administered by the Smithsonian Latino Center and generously supported by American Express
- Object number
- 2021.42.7
- Restrictions & Rights
- © Adebunmi Gbadebo
- Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.




