Portrait of a Woman
Curio

Mose Tolliver. Circa 1988. $1100

H 25 x 12"

he put me in a box, but i don't fit. i told the man, make it bigger. give me room, but he doesn't listen, says "be quiet, woman," thinks he owns me, thinks i'll be quiet forever in this box, have to talk with my damn eyes, the fool, thinks he knows every inch of my face, every hair on my head, thinks i'm a piteous creature the lord made. he don't know shit.

j. s-o'c