The Old Ku Klux: After All Their Fighting, Where's the Profit?

Made of plastic lids with rope hair, Thornton Dial’s gridded construction of the eerie faces of hooded Klansmen occupies an arresting place in the imagination. The black background represents a graveyard, the Klansmen’s hair continuing to grow after their death. Dial’s piece turns the Klan’s threatening presence on its head: through his clever titling, he draws attention to the fact that Klansmen too will one day die and come to rest in the same place as those they’ve been fighting against, leaving this life with nothing more than anyone else.