Flowback

'Responding to the history of Black hair as a barometer of social and personal consciousness, throughout all the works presented, I make the image of hair both physical and conceptual, showing the psychic proportions hair has in the lives ofBlack people. I invert the head. Through this disorientation, I signal a shift from the actual to the imagined, concrete realism to abstract thought. In both painting and drawing, I use the space of hair as a vehicle for infinite possibilities of becoming. In Flow back for example, I mix color to a near black, rendering a landscape that merges with or grows from the subject’s hair roots. Proposing imagination as a primary tool of transformation and self-empowerment, my works demonstrate female self-invention and self-representation through the deployment of her own tools.'

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