Research is an integral aspect of my practice and has raised conversations of identity and ancestry in search of origin. There is a process of referencing my personal experiences and memories in tandem with collective diasporic experiences. (Re)visiting records of my ancestors (biological and perceived) allows for observing the insistence of Black life and understanding the ways their lives and experiences are informing my own. Using a variety of mediums - collage, painting, site-specific installation, language, and photography - I have identified a need to (re)claim, through artistic and linguistic production, the means to produce and author our own subjectivities, rendering ourselves seen and heard.
Communicating with a wider diaspora is vital in developing an individual identity and being able to activate interactions. Installation practice uses a compilation of world-building and developing symbols and meaning that can be recognized by a collective as well as creates new imagery for future generations. My practice exists in response to the need to communicate with a larger diaspora via visual language. I aspire to create spaces of comfort and familiarity for bodies like mine to form and maintain collective and individual cultural and political identities.
Communicating with a wider diaspora is vital in developing an individual identity and being able to activate interactions. Installation practice uses a compilation of world-building and developing symbols and meaning that can be recognized by a collective as well as creates new imagery for future generations. My practice exists in response to the need to communicate with a larger diaspora via visual language. I aspire to create spaces of comfort and familiarity for bodies like mine to form and maintain collective and individual cultural and political identities.
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