Courtesy the artist, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco and RYAN LEE Gallery, New York Stephanie Syjuco, To the Person Sitting in Darkness, 2019, dye-sublimation print on fabric, flag: 1.8 × 3 m / pole: 4.5 m. The artist Stephanie Syjuco borrowed Twain’s title for her 2019 work: a flag for the then-US territory of the Philippines as described by Twain, resembling the American design but with ‘white stripes painted black and the stars replaced by the skull and cross-bones’. ‘ne that sets the captive free, and one that takes a once-captive’s new freedom away from him, and picks a quarrel with him with nothing to found it on then kills him to get his land.’ The quote is from Twain’s essay, ‘To the Person Sitting in Darkness’, in which the writer condemns Western imperialism in southeast Asia. ‘There must be two Americas,’ wrote Mark Twain in 1901.
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