Mourning/Warning : an abecedarian

Creator

Blassingame, Tia

Date

• 2015

Publisher

[Rhode Island]: [Tia Blassingame]

Summary

• COLOPHON: "Stripping the maritime alphabet of its primary colors except blue and replacing them with muted browns and blacks, Mourning/Warning highlights the relationship of Americans of the African diaspora to water and maritime trade as well as the need for an alternate means of communication in times of emergency and duress. How do you send a warning call that hatred comes constantly in waves?
• M/W serves as a method of memorializing the slain and wronged, and of teaching our children and ourselves to be vigilant and wary in hostile terrain, where your skin color makes you an easy target.
• Conceived of in Newport, Rhode Island, M/W was digitally printed in Josefin Sans typeface."
• Date of publication in pencil on colophon.
• Signed by the artist.
• Number: 5/26.