“I feel it is my moral obligation as a black artist to try to graphically document what I feel socially,” David Hammons said in 1969, one year before he made this haunting double self-portrait which appears in 'Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power,' copublished by D.A.P. and @tate as well as on the cover of 'The Soul of a Nation Reader,' published by @gregoryrmiller Titled “Black First, America Second” (1970), this body print and silkscreen on paper presents one version of the self that “clings to the stars of the national flag,” according to 'Soul of a Nation' originating curators Mark Godfrey and Zoé Whitley, “while the other self appears almost painfully cleaved by its stripes… [It] is an image both timely and resolutely of its time.” #blackhistory #blackhistorymonth #davidhammons #blackfirstamericasecond @vampirefriendly @markgodfrey1973 #soulofanationreader #soulofanation @zoe.whitley #blackpower #blackart https://www.instagram.com/p/Co2sldMpjqJ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=