The Shape of ThingsMW EDITIONS Carrie Mae Weems: The Shape of Things Foreword by Tom Eccles. Text by Thomas Lax, Huey Copeland. Interview by Hans Ulrich Obrist. A grand panorama of race and civil unrest in Americas past and present Carrie Mae Weems has often confronted the uncomfortable truths of racism and race relations over the course of her nearly 40 year career. In The Shape of Things she focuses her unflinching gaze at what she describes as the circuslike quality