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Hannah Verster (Huron)<\/p>\n

This artwork attempts to encapsulate the Phantoms of the Past Project. The painting on the left depicts the last site of memory on our walking tour of Bath, England: William Beckford\u2019s tower. In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, William Beckford was the wealthiest man in England. He was an enslaver, and his wealth was derived from plantations in Jamaica. Beckford built himself this tower in order to house his expansive collections of art.<\/p>\n

The painting is positioned intentionally on the canvas in order to decentre Beckford\u2019s view of England. The butterflies leaving Beckford\u2019s tower were inspired by Anthony Head\u2019s iMigration 2<\/a> art installation in Bath Abbey, which features countless paper butterflies suspended in the abbey\u2019s rafters. The butterflies in my piece have escaped from Beckford\u2019s tower, symbolizing the goal of the Phantom\u2019s of the Past project to illuminate the lives of countless Africans whom people like Beckford held enslaved.<\/p>\n

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Hannah Verster (Huron) This artwork attempts to encapsulate the Phantoms of the Past Project. The painting on the left depicts the last site of memory on our walking tour of Bath, England: William Beckford\u2019s tower. In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, William Beckford was the wealthiest man in England. He was an enslaver, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":1159,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/phantomsofthepast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/phantomsofthepast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/phantomsofthepast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/phantomsofthepast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/phantomsofthepast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/phantomsofthepast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/phantomsofthepast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/phantomsofthepast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/phantomsofthepast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.huronresearch.ca\/phantomsofthepast\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}