Josie Love Roebuck
Region: South
The summer of 2020 brought chaos to the world. We were faced with a global pandemic and searching for peace and justice for people of color. The inquisition of Josie Love Roebuck’s heritage came into play during the Black Lives Matter movement: her identity, experiences, fears, concerns, and what she would like to change were thrown into the spotlight. Roebuck’s process addresses the contemporary complexity of identifying as biracial, where symbolizing pain and triumph, exclusion and acceptance, is achieved by layering fabrics and patching together portraits. Roebuck has tried to make herself whole by examining her existence as a biracial person. She has been confronting the ever-present feeling of being in the wrong skin and of not belonging to a specific racial group, while wondering how can one ever be whole when we live in a society that thrives on racial divide.