Jovan C. Speller
Fever Dream
These works are selections from the multidisciplinary series entitled Relics of Home. This series
was largely research based and centered around what Speller calls the Speller Plantation in Windsor
NC (not its real name but an accurate description of its history). Speller looked back to this land to
examine land ownership, black labor, and trace origin stories through the depiction of specific
sites significant to my family history. The Roanoke River where slaves were brought and
auctioned; the last house Speller's family owned; the ever-present cotton fields; and the house Speller's grandfather grew up in. These works are representations of a place and time remembered, by the land, and through stories told by those who still inhabit this history.
was largely research based and centered around what Speller calls the Speller Plantation in Windsor
NC (not its real name but an accurate description of its history). Speller looked back to this land to
examine land ownership, black labor, and trace origin stories through the depiction of specific
sites significant to my family history. The Roanoke River where slaves were brought and
auctioned; the last house Speller's family owned; the ever-present cotton fields; and the house Speller's grandfather grew up in. These works are representations of a place and time remembered, by the land, and through stories told by those who still inhabit this history.
Housed in the body, 2020
cut and layered archival photographs
20 x 20 in 51 x 51 cm
cut and layered archival photographs
20 x 20 in 51 x 51 cm
Behold the land before me, 2020
cut and layered archival photographs
20 x 20 in 51 x 51 cm
cut and layered archival photographs
20 x 20 in 51 x 51 cm
