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Ligon works with text or the 'ready-made' image which he then re-contextualises, often using humour, and endows with a new resonance.  This print, a photogravure, is derived from a photograph in a textbook on conservation. The text - which he has taken unchanged from the book - reflects a passage in Ralph Ellison's 1951 novel <i>Invisible Man</i>, one of the major 20th-century works of literature addressing black lives and experience (and a key text for Ligon who has drawn on it repeatedly).  In the book, the Invisible Man (who is black) reminisces about his work in a paint factory where only he knew the secret of mixing the perfect white paint by adding a secret quantity of black - clearly a metaphor for American society.  The text Ligon has used for <i>Stranger</i> will immediately evoke this passage for those who know it, but its significance is obvious independent of that knowledge. 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