"She was an installation artist in her own right and a woman that created this environment that was showing me, through possessions, that I wasn't poor," Frazier says. She just stops what she's doing and we both looked over our shoulders, and I happened to squeeze the cable release."įrazier says her Grandma Ruby wanted to shield her from the poverty and violence that lurked in the shadow of Carnegie's first steel mill by dressing her up like a doll and surrounding her with them.
Then, "she sits on the floor and starts to rearrange her statues and her dolls, I sit next to her and we're already framed," Frazier says. "These things should have killed us, but we survived it."įirst, Grandma Ruby braided Frazier's hair the way she did when the photographer was a little girl (she's 23 in the image).
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