QC Family Tree Culture Bearer residency, September 2023
The Thing About Refuge
During this 10 Week Residency I worked alongside 3 others artist to put together a cohesive body of work that culminated in art exhibition and experience at the end of the residency. We were tasked with creating work that amplified the voices of the residents of Elderly Park, referencing their experiences with housing insecurity and gentrification.
My work consisted of Giclee prints, backlit by LED lighting affixed to motion sensors, and a spray painted resin sculpture.
The residency was rewarding, and exhausting in the best way. The subject matter was heavy and very human. I worked hard to create work that both represented my style and also felt authentic to the experiences that I both heard about witnessed during my time in Enderly community.
Everybody Fights, 2023 (QCTF Culture Bearer Residency)
Giclee on Art Natural 300 Paper, with LED lighting
24 x 28 in
In this piece, we see gentrification personified in the form of a giant machine.Perhaps more importantly we see the neighborhood fighting back together.In time of crisis, all hands grab a rope to resist the machinations of the machines.
Serene Fury, 2023 (OCTF Culture Bearer Residency)
Spray Paint on Resin
24 x 28 in
This sculpture seeks to illustrate the paradox of beautiful violence.
Often times we only recall the bloody, visceral nature of violence, with a blind spot for its more sinister, silent sister.
We see shiny new things, new houses, and often neglect to realize the severe consequences that comes with them.
This solid resin club, though decorated to look quite fanciful, is still a club, and still quite dangerous.
We Structured the exhibit to be reminiscent of the home. My room was staged to look like the living room, where you often come relax, but where the stresses of day, month, year, still loom overhead.
The residency experience concluded a few months after the exhibition with an artist talk in collaborations with Boom Charlotte and 3 Bone Theatre.