What if systematic oppression were a dress we could peel off and slip out of?

The back of a reproduction Hogarth Chair. Mahogany is a tropical hardwood whose use in European furniture is tied to the expansion of colonial empires. I have been locating eliasons of black bodies, tropical trees and animals in the drawing rooms of multigenerational colonial wealth for over a decade. Isolating the brown female form in the back of these chairs is a short meditation on how it is "a nonsense" to see the black woman in the chairs that held the wealthy in the 18th century.