Southern Trees and the Strange Fruit They Bear No. 1 #2
by Aberjhani's Official Postered Chromatic Poetics
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Southern Trees and the Strange Fruit They Bear No. 1 #2
Artist
Aberjhani's Official Postered Chromatic Poetics
Medium
Photograph - Mixed Media Digital Art
Description
I don't think Billie Holiday would mind me paraphrasing hers and Lewis Allen's famous song for the title of this image: Savannah's famous Confederate Monument as seen through curtains of gray Spanish moss hanging from the limbs of an oak tree in Forsyth Park.
Like many such monuments throughout the southern United States, notably the one recently removed from a public space in New Orleans, this one has been the subject of some controversy. You can't really tell by the angle used here but this is one of the largest Confederate monuments in the country. The gentleman who posed for it was Civil War veteran Hamilton Branch.
The frame used here is also monument-related but I will let site-seers figure out how and where.
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May 4th, 2017
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