Between Starshine & Clay, 2021
Unbound artist book. Original text, artist made cotton and kudzu paper, hand embroidery, screenprinting, and letterpress (polymer plate). Title borrowed from Lucille Clifton’s ‘Won’t You Celebrate with Me’.
Text Reads:
Between Starshine & Clay
Do you remember me?
You look like…
A sun soaked porch
Lemonade in an oak barrel
Playing cards that stick.
Follow the dirt road
Until you reach,
The middle of nowhere
The center of everything.
Accept their blessing
Offer your gratitude.
Wear white on Friday
And dance in the circle.
We have met before…
Endless sky,
Bare feet,
Southern heat.
Hold my hand,
Do you remember me?
Reunion, 2021
Zine for Reunion exhibition at The Museum of Contemporary Art Georgia. Exhibition statement and images from The Great Dismal Swamp activations.
Up River, 2018
Letterpress (hand set type), artist made abaca, milkweed, peanut, flax papers, milkweed and peanut inclusions, original text. Smells of peanut.
Preface, 2018
Original text, vanilla, ginger, cinnamon, found cotton. Spray paint.
Text reads:
Trying to imbibe in histories
unknown, untold, usurped.
Depictions of tragedy require recognition of transcendence.
Let’s not conflate reconstructed remembrance
with a negation of joy, of tenderness, of pride, of reclamation.
Me? My family? My we?
More than underserved.
More than spoken for.
More than used, abused, dehumanized, economized and commodified.
A bedrock.
A cornerstone.
A foundation for futures.
A beacon.
A new imaginary.
A sweat through struggle that is sweeter than every rose-colored anything.
No skin served me better.
No hand held me tighter.
No song lifted me higher.
No voice gifted me such wisdom.
No touch gave me more life.
Than my me, my family, my we.
