A museum display of History of Slavery in the United States bears a large X painted over a slavery image and White-Out applied to erase the content. Cole references the Trump administration's 2025 directive to remove slavery-related exhibits from the Smithsonian and other federally funded institutions.
The four-panel image depicts AI as a circuit-patterned entity expanding from server rooms into buildings and then as a multi-armed form drawing water from arid terrain before encircling the globe. It highlights the resource demands of expanding AI operations. The panels progress from indoor facilities to outdoor extraction and global reach. Publication occurs during continued growth in AI training and inference workloads that require substantial cooling and power. Industry reports note rising electricity use by data centers and concerns over water in drought-prone areas. The sequence underscores competition among companies to scale systems without added limits.
A young Black boy asks a white girl what she is doing for Juneteenth in Brown\'s 2025 piece. She answers catching up on some reading while sitting atop a stack including the Frederick Douglass narrative, Beloved, 12 Years a Slave, and Kindred. An optimistic depiction of cross-racial education as Juneteenth observance.
