"The
B(r)anded series is a result of an exploration, and subsequent
appropriaton of the language of advertising. By employing
the ubiquitos language of advertising in my work, I am
able to talk explicity about race, class and history in
a medium that almost everyone can decode..
Much of the work focuses on the use of African American
male body in advertisements. I am intersted in the connection
between this body type and the cotton and slave trade industries
that brought this country so much wealth." Hank Willis Thomas
