Wow, is this ever a grand house! But where is it? Bonus: Tell us what it is. Send your guess about the location of this photo to feedback@statehousereport.com. And don’t forget to include your name and the town in which you live.
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Our June 21 mystery, “Reaching out?” was a photo sent in by reader Vally Sharpe of Asheville, N.C. Several readers knew the picture to be of a moving piece of art at the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Ala.
Congratulations to: Charlie Davis of Aiken; Greg Leventis of Oakland, Calif.; Vance Stine of Clover; George Graf of Palmyra, Va.; Freida McDuffie of Charleston; Bill Segars of Hartsville; Jay Altman of Columbia; Dale Rhodes of Richmond, Va.; Herman Blake and Frank Bouknight, both of Summerville; and Robert Saul of Greenville;
Graf shared that the monument is called “Raise Up” and is by artist Hank Willis Thomas.
“According to hmdb.org, this bronze sculpture is based on a historical photograph from apartheid South Africa, and depicts a row of male heads turned against the wall, arms raised in the air. The art historian and critic Kerr Houston explained the source: ‘In Raise Up, Thomas gives us the heads and arms of ten of the thirteen black miners pictured by Ernest Cole as they undergo a humiliating medical examination, in the nude.’ The shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, which spawned the protest phrase ‘Hands up, don’t shoot,’ took place two months later. After that, this piece took on an unanticipated meaning.”
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