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Hello, I am writing a research paper on a really interesting artist named Rodney Mcmillian and am looking at an artwork of his called ‘Untitled (2007)’ which is currently on display in a show called ‘Thirty Americans’ at the Rubell Family Collection in Miami. The artwork is a huge 162 X 264 inch quilt of black vinyl stitched together and hung on a wall, with a few massive protruding black appendages jutting out – there is white stitching along the black appendages. I thought that perhaps the appendages evoked the look of dreadlocks that had a streak of grey hair running down each dreadlock. So I was wondering: Do older people who have dreadlocks sometimes have a single stripe of greyness running down some of their dreadlocks, if they are going grey? Also a friend of mine told me some people have a pretty closely shaven head with only a handful of dreadlocks extending from different areas of the scalp, and this hairdo is usually seen in older men. I am interested if this is true as well because I think this artwork looks like that too. If you want to see a picture of the artwork you can go to the website ‘Thirty Americans’ and click on Rodney Mcmillians name under the list of artists. If anyone has any responses to these questions, if you could email me at jgalb4@aol.com with them, I’d really really appreciate it. Thank you sincerely!!! J

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