Unnamed Creole Woman (from SuperMarket)

Bas-Relief Sculpture
Slavery Trails Series

Dimensions: 7 5/8 × 4 3/4 × 1 3/4 in. (19.4 × 12.1 × 4.4 cm)

This bas-relief sculpture was created as a physical, collectible work from the ongoing Slavery Trails series. The figure represents an unnamed Creole woman who was sold at the St. Louis Hotel in New Orleans—one of the largest urban slave markets in the American South.

The relief is drawn from SuperMarket, an artwork reflecting the history of enslaved people bought and sold at the St. Louis Hotel between 1838 and 1862. At the time, the hotel was a symbol of luxury, housing a bank, ballroom, shopping arcade, trading exchange, and a slave market where thousands of enslaved people were sold. The juxtaposition of wealth and human commodification is central to the work.

Today, the former site of the St. Louis Hotel is the Omni Royal Orleans in the French Quarter. Like many sites connected to slavery, its history remains largely unmarked.

This relief offers a way to hold space for a life erased from the archive—a person known not by name, but by circumstance. Each piece functions both as an artwork and as a quiet memorial.

Purchasing this work directly supports Slavery Trails, a site-specific, musically interactive augmented-reality project that creates decentralized memorials to slavery across the United States, marking places where these histories were embedded but often unacknowledged.