Carolina QuotesIt hasn't come together finally. There's no end to this, and it changes over time. My relationship with history as I used to write it, and as I sometimes use it in my work — that was something that took several years, actually, for me to feel comfortable with. And as I continued to wrestle with it and to deal with it visually, it's that I can do whatever I want to the figure; I can do whatever I want with history…
Nell Irvin Painter Connected to the Carolinas
Source
On the freedom that the visual arts give her versus historical research in “This new and ‘old’ artist offers a self-portrait in starting over” in PBS NewsHour (2018 Jul 23)
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- 2018
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“It hasn't come together finally. There's no end to this, and…” Nell Irvin Painter. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-84D775470C. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/84d775470c
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