Red Drink: A BLAXIDERMY Juneteenth Offering

Title

Red Drink: A BLAXIDERMY Juneteenth Offering

Year

2018

Materials

Painted concrete fountain filled with 100s of gallons of Big Red soda

Series

Fountains for Black Joy

 

I created and performed with a palm tree shaped fountain filled with 800 gallons of Big Red soda. Guests were welcome to participate in a ritual performance: toast to freedom, and pour into the fountain with this celebratory drink for the ancestors for the Juneteenth holiday. Juneteenth, the holiday commemorating the delayed Emancipation of enslaved peoples in Texas, was the one day of the year that Black children were welcome at Playland parks in Texas during the Jim Crow era.

Photo documentation by Ronald Llewellyn Jones

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