the sunken place. watching the unconstrained construction of the renegade obamachron. i got an email about project 21 being a gallery of rogues in the sunken place. i thought of the weight of the obamachron sinking into the earth. i realized the phrase had a specific source, and recalled it comes from the film, get out. the guy sits in the chair and sinks into infinite space to the sunken place. the sunken place is the ongoing history of enslavement and the cultural appropriation and the use of social niceties to enforce social hierarchies. everyone is in thrall to the sunken place. it comes to occupy the place we live.

the sunken place means that we’re marginalized. no matter how hard we scream, the system silences us. -jordan peele