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children. The rate climbs to a 5.5 times difference when the research considers swimming pool drowning deaths. The disparity is a legacy of segregation in the US, where black communities were denied access to public swimming pools. For the artist, swimming is tied to a childhood fear of the ocean, which she only overcame when she was 11, and was forced to take swimming lessons in school.
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The painting series based on
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was the resulting painting series and installation, first shown at
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depicts the Harlem Honeys & Bears swimmers in and around the swimming pool. In some of the paintings, the figures remain faceless, and the artist tends to use pastel colors, and her signature burnt technique. In others, she shows the faces of the swimmers on which the paintings are based,
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