I have a dream' fluff. If you're white, you aren't motivated to learn. A friend who teaches in Seattle invited her to bring the art and discuss it in her classroom, which she did. As she did more paintings and other works with themes related to race, she delved into research that further shaped her views and work. This month Dimitriou has a show at the Cornish College of the Arts that challenges people to think about whiteness.
Oil paint obscures many details, including the facial features of shoppers who look white.
We see the back of the man closest to the camera. Don't assume I'm white. Another piece has photographs of white people labeled according to the degree to which they represent whiteness. There is a white one, a whiter one and then there is a photo of abolitionist John Brown, who is labeled unwhite. John Brown is a hero to new abolitionists like Dimitriou.