Fragility 009, 2025, archival pigment print on dibond, 58 x 44 cm. / 22.8 x 17.3 in. prints Carl Kauffman

Carl Kauffman

Spartacus is perched upon a branch waiting for flies

The painting references symbolically and metaphorically racism that has effected her life and millions of other African Americans over the course of the past 400 years

This was a shadow box sculpture made from found and discarded bit

68 x 43 in

Fragility 009, 2025, archival pigment print on dibond, 58 x 44 cm. / 22.8 x 17.3 in. prints Carl KauffmanFragility 009, Steven Crawford, 2025, archival pigment print on dibond, 58 x 44 cm. 22. 8 x 17. 3 in. Flowers encased in ice reflect the fragility of hopedistorted, suspended, and vulnerable to loss. The frozen forms evoke the tension between beauty and impermanence, preservation and decay, capturing hope on the brink of vanishing.