BLK is a stylization of Blackness. These are images of, and interpretations of Black America. They are contemporary iconography and representation beginning to think about and deploy abstractionist and surrealist tools. The subjects are moments of Blackness and health, from death to gestation and reflection on the process .
Materials: Linen canvas, Acrylic paint
The United State of Experimentation (also known as Social Evils Project), a collaboration with Ms. Najjuwah Walden, PhD Student.
The focus of these works was to tell a story about the synergism of place, religion, criminal justice, and disease in relation to historical and contentious sex work regulations in St. Louis, Missouri. These four pieces are a visual evolution of a systematic policing’s origin and legacy in the compounding forces of sexism and racism. They illustrate the beginning, middle, and present state of regulations and systems meant to restrict and harm specific communities-black communities in four parts.
5x3ft. Acrylic, Canvas, Glass.
Inspired by works of Kara Walker this piece places policy within geography. It is symbolic of sectors influencing public health including policy, environment, and social context. Policy directly from the Social Evils ordinance, St. Louis county and the City of St. Louis, implementation and the schism that can manifest.
5x3ft. Acrylic, Canvas, Glass.
Inspired by contemporary disease mapping of STI/STDs (sexually transmitted infections/ sexually transmitted diseases). These maps are meant to geospatially illustrate patterns of disease. Often used as illustrative tools to describe patterns of disease and inform public health interventions and research. This map invokes a multimedia approach to geospatial mapping that acts as an end to the chronological story of the social evils ordinances impact.
3x5ft. Acrylic, Canvas, Glass .
The physical space created to practice Social Evils laws and a mark left on the landscape of St. Louis. This piece was inspired by the motion of post impressionist movements and translating that into contemporary depictions of the Social Evils Hospital. This piece marks the material beginning of Social Evils practicing, screening, taxing, and procedures of the said laws. It acts as a grounding force, pressing you to follow reflections alongside the hospital and the city of St. Louis and off the boundary of the canvas.
3x5ft .Acrylic, Canvas, Glass .
The social and political impacts of the ordinances. The regulation of women's rights, religion, geographic segregation, the people and places it impacts (reflections from broken mirrors) These elements literally sit within the City of St. Louis and bleed out.
