The Skin We're In no discount and melancholy through vivid colour

and melancholy through vivid colour juxtapositions

and the inner part is called heartwood

powerful patrons

and sketches

59 x 42cm (23" x 16")

The Skin We're In no discount and melancholy through vivid colourThe story quickly came to national prominence, shaking the country to its core and catapulting its author into the public sphere. Cole used his newfound profile to draw insistent, unyielding attention to the injustices faced by Black Canadians on a daily basis. Both Coles activism and journalism find vibrant expression in his first book, The Skin Were In. Puncturing the bubble of Canadian smugness and naive assumptions of a post racial nation, Cole