by Sanford Biggers (Laura Casamitjana)

Sanford Biggers is a conceptual artist, who wants to express their conversations difficult and hard to through painting, sculpture, the filmed material and direct in action. But regardless of these media, their favorites are the story and dialogue. In 2007 I think the "Lotus" is a work of 2 meters in diameter, that represents a flower of Lotus of 272 kg in glass. This symbol belongs to the Buddhism of transcendence, represents the purity of mind and spirit. But if you look more closely, we can see that in each petal is a cross section of a slave ship. It represents the British slavery. To create the lotus have carved more than 6000 figures., to create the Eagle Academy for young people, a school for black and Latino students. I taught a figure where you shoot, and explains that many black have dead in hands of the police. To destroy them returns to recreate and bathes them in bronze carrying the brands of its violent creation by way of wounds or scars of war. Laura Casamitjana