Portals into Blackness
Negative Space
The purpose of my work is to provide portals into blackness. I aim to create dialogues that extend past the precarities that influenced the black gaze. The dialogue I propose between the work and the viewer is that Blackness is not flat. Although we have shared experiences we do not all have the same experience thus forming the awareness of void regarding the black diaspora’s image. This void my practice touches on is translated as Negative space. I associate this idea of negative space as an absence. Through the modalities of Pan-Africanism my work is to fill in the gaps of misinformed portrayals of myths versus realities of black people that is not flat. There’s this negative space that we don’t all get to exist in. Sometimes we do, but not always. In most cases when black bodies are being encountered we are being sorted. This gaze serves as a constant reminder that we have always been a project to colonialism.
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Black Space
Through continuous image I search to know what is that arc of reversal building my whole view of negative space and what it means to not get a birthright that is ours that we deserve. What is the experience to be the embodiment of Pan-africanism? My work acknowledges what these myths are vs the realities of black people. The premise of what I create is to bring light to why the black diaspora does not need to rely on afro-futurism, not that we don’t need afro futurism, but that the reality we have here right now is beautiful.