the invisible cowboy –

Invisible Ink is a project created to combat the whitewashing of Black narratives using photography to create images that rectify history. ‘The Invisible Cowboy’ begins the series with Bass Reeves, the original cowboy. The muse is seen on a prairie, looking intently at the viewer who is forced to reckon with the idea of a cowboy in Black skin. 

The out-of-style fabric lined as a backdrop for our cowboy mimics the print and colors used by the African American Community in the South during the era of Reconstruction – a time and place Bass Reeves as sheriff and detective.