2023-
A hair bead holds no utility—it adorns. In this way, I consider the pony bead a cultural signifier of care and attention between caretaker and child. Hand-woven out of pony beads, a common hair accessory for braids, this collection of tapestries focuses on Black childhood in the early 2000s—acknowledging the difficulty, novelty, discomfort, and joy of a childhood spent in the Digital Age, rife with new technological advances, political developments, and historical precedents. Text comes from original poems and visual icons of the aughts.
Baby bush, you made my eyes go wide and stay there at Beeler Gallery’s I Was Here Fotofocus Biennial group show, 2024
Doily-socked dollar out of fifteen cent at Wassaic Project’s summer group show Tall Shadows in Short Order in Wassaic, NY, 2024
A month’s unwashed hair crimped combed out for the new-new parting as fresh as young miss Mary mack you make my heart go and Luck is seven hours blunt fingers moving quick and sure in a big blue magic cloud somebody rib just behind an ear so so humid at solo window exhibition at stop gap projects in Columbia, MO, 2023
I love a big fat acrylic and a little nameplate necklace like I love when a girl says she got 14-carat gold at the beauty supply I let her have it every time because I love easy miracles void of greening at Wassaic Project’s summer group show Tall Shadows in Short Order in Wassaic, NY, 2024
“Okay you’ll be Jade you’ll be Yasmin and I’ll be Sasha.” at Showman Ferrara Gallery’s 28th Annual NO DEAD ARTISTS exhibition in New Orleans, LA, 2024
“Okay you’ll be Jade you’ll be Yasmin and I’ll be Sasha.” at Showman Ferrara Gallery’s 28th Annual NO DEAD ARTISTS exhibition in New Orleans, LA, 2024