Harris works in photography, collage, installation, and performance to explore gender, sexuality, and various cultural narratives and histories, As a Black, Queer man who spent part of his childhood in Tanzania, he is particularly interested in the objectification of the Black figure in Western culture and tracing legacies of trauma. Herald, like many of Harris' photocollage works, presents a monumentally scaled version of art historical images, political figures, athletes, and personal imagery. Harris describes his process of collecting images for a collage as a way to "reveal the accumulation of ideas." The images in Herald hold particular significance to the Art Center because they contain a postcard of the Diego Velazquez painting that inspired Francis Bacon's Study for Pope Innocent X, an important work in the Art Center's collections.

Source: DMAC News Sep Oct Nov Dec 2022