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Date: 2003

Size: 185 x 210 cm

Museum: Souls Grown Deep (Atlanta, United States)

Technique: Assemblage

In a continued exploration of the still-life genre, Dial borrowed the stock image of grape clusters so ubiquitous in the fine-art tradition and recast them to portray a horrific chapter in African American history—the practice of lynching blacks in the South. Calling the series

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