DeVane takes on these incessant specters of racial whiteness and violence in Subsumed by Whiteness, part of the Avatar series. Here an expressionless white head is framed by a lacy halo even as he wears a neckpiece made of bullet casings. This figure is a timely and apt metaphor for the stubborn social resistance to gun control even in the face of surge of mass shootings all over the United States in 2022. Is that a gaping wound in the composition, out of which flowers for the deceased fall?

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