King Thackston, born in 1949, was a founder of Gay Spirit Visions, an Atlanta-based support and advocacy group for spiritual gay men. He died of complications from AIDS in Atlanta in 2004.
Courtesy of Georgia Council for the Arts.
Thackston’s pencil piece Digging for Gold—From a Photograph by Sebastiao Salgado (1987) is part of Georgia’s State Art Collection.
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Digging for Gold—From a Photograph by Sebastiao Salgado (1987) by King Thackston is part of Georgia's State Art Collection. According to Thackston, "A search for archetypal, universal images of mankind. This image was chosen for its non-specific location and place in time. Although it is a current image of a gold mine in South America, it could be a primitive culture, anywhere in the world." Pencil, 40 x 65 inches
Courtesy of Georgia Council for the Arts, Georgia's State Art Collection.
