Project 01
Black Berries: The Search for the Black American Identity
Black Berries: The Search for the Black American Identity
through Space and Body politics
For years, I’ve tried to unpack ways to visualize and vocalize this trauma with my art. Working through the fear of triggering myself, I finally decided that it was time to join this conversation. As the dialogue between black women, body, self and perception has been an expanding lexicon of a black body politics, I thought it was time for me to tell my story and build on it. Through the topics of Image and Body politics, surveillance of the Black Body and trauma seamlessly implanted by the external. I was able to create installations
I wanted to create a dialect with my inner child, I took a repetitive narrative in my childhood and built the project around that. Wanting to look into how space can ignite memories of personal and social histories addressing the familial legacy. My practice, during this project, borrowed from psych evaluations/therapy sessions: drawing where you would visualize memories.
I created two rooms that represent the confliction of my inner child through materiality exploration, but also leaving it open for the viewer interpretation. The rooms look like replicas of doll houses I once played with, so its impact is to bring the self-reflection conversation through the labor of building the rooms as a labor of therapy.
I wanted to create a dialect with my inner child, I took a repetitive narrative in my childhood and built the project around that. Wanting to look into how space can ignite memories of personal and social histories addressing the familial legacy. My practice, during this project, borrowed from psych evaluations/therapy sessions: drawing where you would visualize memories.
I created two rooms that represent the confliction of my inner child through materiality exploration, but also leaving it open for the viewer interpretation. The rooms look like replicas of doll houses I once played with, so its impact is to bring the self-reflection conversation through the labor of building the rooms as a labor of therapy.
Miniature Furniture