"Black has remarked that she began making her own versions of luxury goods out of a yearning to own a particular Louis Vuitton purse. These re-creations of books on female artists—“foremothers” Ruth Asawa, Louise Bourgeois, Dorothea Lange, Annie Leibowitz, and Kiki Smith—seem to reflect this same atavistic longing to possess something by creating a version of it while simultaneously representing a meditation on Black’s own mortality and relation to her career trajectory," writes Maria Porges.