Her Mamma Before her Mamma, 2019
Oil pencil, paper
220 x 135 mm
"His Mamma cooked shrimp, and her mamma before her cooked shrimp,
and her mamma before her mamma cooked shrimp too. Bubba's family
knew everything there was to know about the shrimping business."
In the movie Forest Gump (1994) by Robert Zemeckis, best friends
Private Benjamin Buford “Bubba” Blue (played by Mykelti Williamson) and
Private Forest Gump (played by Tom Hanks) are soldiers in the US army,
fighting the war in Vietnam. Bubba has been telling Forest about
his dream of running a shrimp business.