Radcliffe Bailey’s mixed media paintings and installations explore his African-American heritage in an elaborate patchwork of paint and collage. He is interested in ideas of migration and motion and the concept of houses. For Bailey, houses represent an anchor for family life while also reflecting the feeling of being trapped or enslaved. He believes freedom exists in the mind irrespective of its physical reality. In his paintings Bailey utilizes his archive of ancestral photographs as collage materials. The history of his particular family contains stories that document the experiences of the African-American race as a whole. From the Series:What Follows