A series of human installations on imperialism in Africa & racism

As in, “I’m, like, ‘Wow . . . ’” Or, “It was, like . . . ” Or, “I’m thinking, like . . . ” Like has taken 90 words out of the vocabulary. They don’t say felt any more. And I get really upset about that. So there’s a word that erases language, and then there’s the erasure of a word that produces a deranged kind of language. That’s startling to me.

Did you feel a pressure to pursue your trained profession as a mason?
It was a big risk for me – everything I had earned through masonry I was obliged to invest in learning the art of photography. Cheaper material did not produce beautiful photos. I threw everything I had into making images.

Pamela Colman-Smith (affectionally known as Pixie) the daughter of an American merchant from Brooklyn, Charles Edward Smith and his Jamaican wife Corinne Colman, hence Colman-Smith.[via.link]