Valkyrie Mumbet pays tribute to Elizabeth “Mumbet” Freeman, an enslaved African American woman who was the first to win a freedom suit based on the newly adopted Massachusetts Constitution which declared that “all men are born free and equal” in the state of Massachusetts in 1781.
Any time, any time while I was a slave, if one minute’s freedom had been offered to me, and I had been told I must die at the end of that minute, I would have taken it, just to stand one minute on God’s earth a free woman, I would.
Elizabeth Freeman
© Will Howcroft | Courtesy MassArt Art Museum
© Will Howcroft | Courtesy MassArt Art Museum
© Will Howcroft | Courtesy MassArt Art Museum
Artwork Details
PRODUCTION DATE
2020
MATERIALS
Handmade woollen crochet, fabrics, Azores crocheted lace, ornaments, LED light bulbs, polyester, inflatable, fans, microcontroller, power supply unit, steel cables
DIMENSIONS
9 x 17 x 16 m
