Dimensions: (varies) ~138in x 138in or ~350.5cm x 350.5cm.
This work can be installed hanging (as documented here) or molded more as a sculptural work using a pedestal(s) or other anchoring apparatus’ including existing structures. The piece is made of deconstructed pages of “Dear Science and Other Stories”, by Kathrine McKittrick (2021) annotated by myself using blue and black ink. This piece represents my pondering “what is essential to my practice?” Annotation, deconstruction, malleability, scale, opacity all begin to answer that question and lie in the form and materials relationship. This work acts to transgress using subtle and obvious gestures against the white western canon including the subject matter of the text itself to the residual presence of my black body and dirt.
What is essential to my practice? To lose “lose discipline,” in grain community, build plasticity, and trans-late.
Dimensions: ~9.5in x 12in x 1.5in or 24cm x 30cm x 4cm
Materials: Locs, Oak wood, glass, wood pulp based paper, ink.
An Oak wood framed display case contains locs cut from Derek Anthony Holland’s head. The case also contains a typed, signed letter by Derek. The work is situated as a sculpture and image meant to reflect on what can be clearly read or cannot from the remnants of our lives in relation to the desire for all people to be seen as whole, autonomous (person) beings. The writing contends with Derek’s continued attempts to reconcile the realities of racial capitalism (the art world) and traces of community, peace and love.
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24 Days in Berlin (Yerrr breathe sigh extraction ego coolin GRACE expectations Karmic Deadness wakewatching Lackadaisical resistant PALPITATING Faith impulse GIRL Discern Gratuitous Headassery subject transmutation iteration)
Dimensions: approx. 37,500m3 or 1324ft3
Materials: Acrylic paint, plaster and cement
This work aims to prompt the audience to declare that our current operationalizations of (the construction of) race does not facilitate autonomy, freedom or personhood in the world. This work is a confrontation and transgression of translation, of a body, of an object, that is inoperable to the technology built around around us.
The works activate this through specific uses of: color (palette), gestural painting and, written language as indicators in conjunction with you in the physical space- a metaphor for the world, then denying the viewer clarity and concision, dispossessing your ability to decipher/ translate the content and using said strategies to transgress against traditional presupposed uses of the space and material(s). This work is for the anti black world. The images are abstractions of foundational anti black technology.