Farewell
(2024)

Collage & installation— glass with upcycled frame, vintage magazine photos, gesso, fabric, vintage matchbooks, vintage drinking glass, vintage ashtray

34.5”x25”

 “to be honest, i cannot accept your apology”

planning. plotting. strategizing. the in-between place / a midpoint

assembling. map-making separation from the body

an unwelcome entity intervened bound wrestling

submission flailing a dance in the midst i arrange and rearrange 

/ planning / plotting / preparing / packing / binding / succumbing light flotation—reprieve—submerged—rerouting haste and we sit and we sit and we sit

luminous shredding interrupting pasts

engulfed

mending myself in my own image

dealing with misogyny as a black, queer woman in the south is exhausting

This piece is a reclaiming: reminding myself of the agency I can find, grab a hold of; leaving behind archaic narratives; running toward the freedom and liberation belonging to us.