project for nka: when a door is not a door

jed for nka ~Journat of Contemporary African Art· Fall/Winter 1995 r il"he photographs are the result of a survey I conducted amongs ~Iack women to try to determine those parts of their bodies they! (lisliked most. The results showed that they chose those parts tha appeared least like the "white" ideal-their hair, the curly hair at! the nape of the neck, armpits, feet, and knees. I photographed these parts on both black and white models and then again on the ,leslie Naa Lokko did her postgraduate classical statues at the British Museum. I displayed the results bY: studies in architecture at the University railing the photographs to the wall, imitating the way in which College.....Lo.ndon __. ._.. . _ these ideals are nailed to our consciousness. "'--_..I nstallation shot: Ross Lewis Journal of Contemporary African Art· Fall/Winter 1995 emm ...