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The ANTI/body series breaks open the imagined (by 19th century Western art historians) “pure” white surface of classical art to reveal the complex tapestry of histories beneath the surface (please see my essay The Aesthetics of Empire for more on this). The ANTI/body is a body of resistance, the immune response to the disease of white supremacy – it is a body of the future, at once human, plant, and fungi. In this piece, the goddess Kali (Hindu goddess of time, death, and destruction) fuses with Califia (the namesake of California – a fictional Black warrior queen, and the figment of colonial European imagination) and Libertas, the Roman goddess and personification of Liberty.