If state power defines itself within intimate bounds, and across our bodies, how do we
break/distort/bend/stretch/blur that power through our bodies? Through intimacy? Through pleasure? What about the body as landscape, and the landscape as a body? How do both intimacy and place coproduce each other? How do black feminine subjects make, create, define and imagine our own personal formulations of intimacy? What does it mean to be a body? And can you use your body to manipulate, alter, distort and bend power, imagination, time, place, environment?
No matter the medium, my work is rooted in a language of collage and assemblage. I have an ongoing romance with found photos, fragments/parts, material culture, storytelling through image and object, and creating layered visual fields. I am interested in creating artwork that is part of a praxis of “remaking other selves,” as discussed by Kathryn Yusoff in her examinations of geography and race. My practice is heavily influenced by black feminist studies, and historical and archival research. I like to build my own concepts of memory, monuments and memorial–tending to the stories/desires of the dead through daydreaming, research, and consistent experimentation. I traverse through many mediums and ways of making because I am interested in building a practice that is not easily legible. In my previous work, I combined painting, textiles, sewing, and natural dyes to create large scale fabric works. More recently, I am experimenting with wood, three-dimensional forms, installation, metal, ceramic, concrete and more.