Rabid
Derek Cracco • Collaged 1960s magazines, inkjet prints, acrylic and resin on panel
Artist’s statement: “I use the image of the rabid dog from the book as the starting point for this work. I see this image as a metaphor for the white majority’s fear of losing the privileged position oppression has allowed them to maintain. Like rabies, racism spreads from person to person and like a rabid dog, the privileged majority will lash out when the status quo is challenged. This work uses collaged news magazines from the 1960s that show the violence of the civil rights movement. I place these images alongside images of advertisements, which were in the same publications, highlighting the privileged position that whites held then and still hold today.”