If the book doesn't say
Permanent marker on bible
2019-2025
2019-2025
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The text in the work reads: “If the book doesn’t say, what skin color do you assign to the characters?”
The work exposes a deeply rooted bias: the tendency to take whiteness as the default, revealing how racism silently and routinely shapes our collective imagination.
The piece first appeared as a wheatpaste poster in 2019. In 2025, it took on a more tangible form, appearing inside the most widely sold book in the world, which likely features the most erroneously whitened protagonist in the history of literature.
