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By Keyaira Boone ·Updated April 7, 2023
A Black woman is washing clothes overlooking the South Boston Harbor. Her tight coils have natural highlights from sunbeams streaming through a nearby window. Her feet wade in a reflecting pool mirroring her essential but discarded labor.
She sprung from the mind of Simone Leigh, an artist who fuses eighteenth-century political references, 1980s household staples, and artisan traditions from the American South to raise
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