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about
Bliss
Pinball (curtain)
Baby book I
Miss Wilma
Baby bush
Poems and acrostics
Small works
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akeylah wellington is a sculptor and tapestry maker. Her work is concerned 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.

awellingtonart@gmail.com



06.Poems and acrostics
2023-

Abridged, acrostic poems made from original poems about love, domesticity, and getting one’s hair done
1/9    I love a big fat acrylic; pony beads, monofilament; 40 x 88” (pictured at The Anderson in Richmond, VA),  2023
2/9    Text reads: “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 left her have it everytime because I love easy miracles ones void of greening”
3/9   I loved you to Jupiter Saturn Pluto and I still came back loving you; pony beads, monofilament; 31 x 40” (pictured at Pond Gallery),  2023
4/9   Doily socked dollar out of fifteen cent; pony beads, monofilament;  40 x 43”,  2024
5/9    Scotchbonnet special girl; pony beads, monofilament;  40 x 43”,  2024
6/9    Text reads:
7/9    I love you like meat; pony beads, monofilament;  40 x 43”,   2024
7/9   Little miss mary mack you make my heart go young Venus Williams (1994), stop-gap projects,  June 2023
9/9    Text of the right tapestry reads: