Written by Saiesha Bade
Renee Stout's work extends from found materials to photography and painting, and is often influenced by her African American roots. Stout was heavily motivated by the violent upheaval around her inner-city Washington, D.C. studio in the late 1990s when she developed Baby's First Gun, particularly its effect on black youths. Stout emphasises the nonchalant attitude that many Americans have about guns with the neutral tones and infantile caricature, and the fortune cookie quotation argues that this social outlook on gun culture, which is firmly imprinted from an early age, is harmful.
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