Artist Statement
My work investigates the ways in which public and private notions of Blackness and the Black family are formed through embodied experience and attempted reproduction of said experience through Film & Television media. Sourced from my personal photo archive and the public archive of industry trade publications, I question the influence of external representational systems on Black interiority.
My color palette, an interpolative nod to the television color bar, as well as my use of chrome and pixelation, abstract my source material from the personal to the public, referencing the larger representational systems that have struggled to “accurately” represent Blackness. I use these visual tools to call attention to the fallacy of entertainment media to fully realize marginalized identities. Instead, I reference the parts that make up the whole, and the spaces between legibility and abstraction that might inspire connection.