The Family

Times have changed.  Did you see the movie, "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner"?  It is a 1967 American comedy-drama film starring Spencer Tracy, Sidney Poitier and Katharine Hepburn, and featuring Hepburn's niece Katharine Houghton. The film contains a (then rare) positive representation of the controversial subject of interracial marriage, which historically had been illegal in most states of the United States, and still was illegal in 17 states—mostly Southern states—until 12 June 1967, six months before the film was released, roughly two weeks after Tracy filmed his final scene (and two days after his death), when anti-miscegenation laws were struck down by the Supreme Court in Loving v. Virginia. [Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License; Wikipedia]

I wanted to do a piece in wood that reflected this significant change of our culture.  The photo below shows how my efforts turned out.

The male figure is carved from an imported black walnut while the female form is ash wood.  
The fetus is walnut.  The figures are mounted on a figured stone slab approximately 12" sq.  I had fun creating this piece, particularly because it felt like it was pushing the envelope a bit. Today its not such a big deal and I think we are all better off by the change in attitudes.

*More detail can be found on my art at my website <www.apatchablue.com>