After birth all diligence is transferred to the calves; then the farmers brand them with their mark and the name of their breed And set aside those to rear to perpetuate their kind, to keep as sacred for the altar, or to cultivate earth and turn over the uneven field breaking it’s clods. the rest of the cattle pasture on green grasses, but train those that you’ll prepare for work and service on the farm when they are still calves and set them on the path to dociling while their youthful spirits are willing, while their lives are tractable. some few women are born free, and some amid insult and scarlet letter achieve freedom [sic] with that freedom they are buying an untrammeled independence and dear as is the price they pay for it, it will in the end be worth every taunt and groan, 2020

Sublimation prints on cotton paper, with copper wire and plastic, in painted glass vase
© Kandis Williams; courtesy the artist and 52 Walker, New York. Photo by Paul Salveson; courtesy of Night Gallery, Los Angeles.