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
slide 1-3: Tall Shadows in Short Order, Wassaic Project (Wassaic, NY)slide 4: Can we hold hands while we walk, 934 Gallery (Columbus, OH)slide 5-8: I Was Here, Beeler Gallery (Columbus, OH)
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