Garden of Human Variation, Yellow-Orange side, detail 2

Garden of Human Variation, Yellow-Orange side, detail 2

Artist: Dolores Slowinski

Title: Garden of Human Variation, Yellow-Orange side, detail 2

Attribution: Garden of Human Variation, Yellow-Orange side, detail 2

Year: 2024

Materials: Fabric, thread, buttons, beads, corsage pins, felt, paper, on cardboard armature.

Dimensions: 36" H x 12" D x 12" W

Image Statement: This text leaf acknowledges the purpose of this sculpture and the role that Kofi Adoma, a clinical psychologist, and her explanatory text played in inspiring and contributing to this work. I made her acquaintance at her presentation about her friend, Ruth Ellis, an African American, lesbian woman in Highland Park, MI who was an LGBTQAI and civil rights activist throughout her life of 101 years. The Ruth Ellis Center, a non-profit agency in Detroit that is named for her, is dedicated to assisting LGBTQAI youth and young adults of color who are homeless, in the child welfare system, or are having difficulty getting health care.