Mau Mau 2000 (1994) features a doubling of the famous image of Macaulay Culkin parodying Edvard Munch’s The Scream in the movie Home Alone above a short newspaper clipping reporting the innocent verdict for Damian...
Mau Mau 2000 (1994) features a doubling of the famous image of Macaulay Culkin parodying Edvard Munch’s The Scream in the movie Home Alone above a short newspaper clipping reporting the innocent verdict for Damian Williams’s charge of “aggravated mayhem” against white truck driver Reginald Denny during the 1992 Los Angeles uprisings following the Rodney King beating police trial. (Unlike those officers, Williams was found guilty and given the maximum sentence on various other charges.) Intruding white penises punctuate the paintings and collages in Proto-Skin Set (and Pope.L once walked through Harlem with a fourteen-foot-long white tube extending from his crotch in the performance Member [a.k.a. “Schlong Journey”]; 1996).
New York, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, Pope.L: Proto-Skin Set, 2017
Literature
Pope.L, Bennett Simpson, Pope.L: Proto-Skin Set, 2017, Mitchell-Innes &
Nash, New York, illustrated p. 72
Bessire, Mark H.C., William Pope.L, William Pope.L: The Friendliest Black
Artist in America, 2002, The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, illustrated p. 143