Please tell us about yourself and how your art practice relates to the the theme of, Memory + Healing + Sustainability? *
My response:
“My relationship with art is cybernetic and polyamorous. I work through computerized equipment with ‘smart’ technology and I feel supported in it. Like two hemispheres mingling righteously, the camera and softwares internally computes and suggests ideas to me. Sharing together our opinions on the art we want to make. My artistic progression is dependent on the speed, ease, and accuracy of contemporary technology.
My relationship with the camera brought me closer to nature as well. The work I’m submitting, I hope gives some insight to my hopes for the future of my body, or specifically my black body. A body that is tightly bound to work, inequality, and debt.
I think about how my body will survive in the future? Maybe in the future I could be like a child again? Maybe I will escape into the wilderness like some of our maroon ancestors?
My body is infused with the fragments of landscapes and nature that I collect in my photographic work. A harmonious integration, I hope. Through photography and digital image making I meld deeply with those memories and the fragmented experiences. The process is meant to be transformative, just as I’m trying to transform my own turmoil.
The whole thing is science fantasy to me.”
A new revamp of the previous image
More revamps to rediscovered photos in my archives
The shores at Seaside, NJSeaside, NJOn the road to Pennsylvania Magnolia tree in Brooklyn
My collaborative self-portrait with my eldest kitten, Sasha, was accepted by AHA Fine Art for the upcoming group show , “Cat Daddy”. Co-curated by Jody MacDonald. Open Reception is this Friday, December 17, 6-9pm. At 56 Bogart St., Brooklyn. On view Dec. 17-Jan. 16
Journal
I feel frustrated with working 6-7 days a week at the moment.
I’m trying to take photos everyday again.
Making art gives me that distance away from thinking about my self-confidence, worrying about if I’m good enough.
It feels like being suspended in the place I go to when I sleep. I make something that seems familiar, or something what I want to see.
And having my photos small & accessible to me is like having one’s keys in their pockets. I like to go back and visit. My worlds, my collection of artifacts.
Made in December last week, outside of work near Pier 36Made in November, photos taken in October, perhaps? The self-portrait was definitely taken on a separate day.
Special thanks to Gary @standupvirgin who invited me to see first-hand our mistreated water but also appreciate its value and the life that found ways to exist despite of the pollution @gowanusdredgers
From watching it by in a subway car to taking it slow and riding it on canoe: The Gowanus Canal.
Recent Media Consumption:
The Guerrilla Girls’ Bedside Companion to the History of Western Art
Photographers on Photography : How the Masters See, Think & Shoot by Henry Carroll
Disney’s Cruella
Kahlo by Eckhard Hollman
For the Love of Music: A Conductor’s Guide to the Art of Listening by John Mauceri