Art
Dear Gordon, 2020
The Dear Gordon collection features hand-dyed paper, acrylic ink on watercolor paper, acrylic paint on canvas, and collage. One idea underlying the collection is the construction of our own artifacts as an act of reclamation, transforming violence against us into beauty within us.
The paintings featuring the image of Gordon are intended to be healing events, using the colors of the Tibetan Buddhist maitri mandala and the shapes of the mandala cut out from the original image of Gordon. This is to suggest that pain is not negated, it is ever-present. The capacity for healing includes the original pain.
The collages and ritual pages can be taken in or out of context with respect to the narrative. They point toward visual representations of esoteric Buddhist teachings grounded in folk ritual practices.
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Joy, Hanging, 2022
Joy, Hanging explores the precarity of joy with video recordings of nature, hand-dyed fabric, acrylic paint, and shadow. The intention of this installation was to give the sensation of hanging, albeit in a lighter sense compared to the historical one associated with American history and the violence against Black Americans. This piece emerges from the questions: How can we hold the reality of the past lightly in order to heal from it?
