akeylah wellingtonloves the smell of Pink. She thinks you probably do, too. Her tapestries and sculptures deal with humor as both a noun connoting comedy and a verb meaning to endure. Working with found media from the 2000s, her attention to technological and political developments is an attempt to make sense of her personal experience of carceral-related displacement, loss, girlhood, generational inheritances, and time.
small things to consider: unrequited platonic love letters, soft power
real sod, concrete, wood, vinylwe wait in Bliss was a temporary bus stop built to facilitate thoughts around predatory advertising. The installation puts two opportunistic entities—a bus bench with a backrest used to advertise and an appropriated bail bonds service ad—together to point to the vulnerable nature of waiting.
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