This bronze sculpture is from a series of works that Gerald Griffin created called Paradigm Shift. This series is the evolution of Gerald Griffin’s past work, Ambiguous Reflections of Race and Identity: A Question of Color. This series consists of poems, oil paintings, hand-pulled lithographs, and bronze sculptures ranging from maquette to life-sized.

Griffin creates work that is focused on a positive creative social response, or a Paradigm Shift, within our thinking and within the conversation of race, with a strong emphasis on a healing strategy to the often highly charged discussion of history and ethnicity.

Griffin wrote the following poem for this sculpture:

Noose and Chains, Hate Remains,

Not Again... Broken Chains

Programmed Fear, In our Brains,

Not This Time... Broken Chains

Plants need Sunshine to Grow,

But they also... Need the Rain

After Knowing, What we Know,

Time for Freedom... Broken Chains