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Each crown sits inside a custom red leather hat box which also forms part of the artwork

It invites contemplation of an unknown realm that may or may not exist in the afterlife

This evolution leads to a personal interpretation that respects and critiques the established art canon

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Though better known as the Statue of Liberty and popularly associated with immigration

Renée Cox NY070926 Each crown sits inside aChillin with Liberty is the antithesis of a stereotypical image. Cox had that all too familiar, people of color epiphany of superhero exclusion moment while shopping at Toys R Us. There are no black superheroes here, she lamented. As a corrective, in 1998 Cox created a photographic series utilizing her own image as a black super heroine named Raj. Raj, who wears Wonder Womans bullet deflecting bracelets, sits atop the statue officially known as