Installation for the 2023 Macalester senior studio art capstone presentation.
Artist's statement:
Minyan is a full-scale art installation that recreates my memory of the synagogue sanctuary my family attended when I was a child. Salient…
Plants are hanging from the red thread upside down. There is a square piece of red fabric inderneath with a pile of dirt and dried leaves/petals on it.
Context: This work includes 4 types of plant species considered to be invasive in Sweden. The…
Pointy shelves that represent abstractly shaped stars. Bright yellow, orange, red, blue, and purple are the colors used. The smaller works besides the shelves are painted circles and elongated pyramids; the pyramids have spheroid shelves hanging from…
This is a 3-wall installation. The walls are black and lights are illuminating from the bottom of 2 walls. In the center wall is the long painting of the 4 Sankofa birds. Each of the other walls has a large cutout drawing of a woman in an almost…
There are 4 Sankofa birds in the center of the image. The birds are blue and have very long necks that are curved back and interlocking with each other. On either side of the image, there is a naked woman with most of the artwork contents coming out…
This installation is an immersive experience that asks attendees to reflect on memory and its connections with self and Blackness. In the middle of the room sits a table and a chair with a quotation from bell hooks.
Two severed heads rest on bloodied cloth sheets. One head's mouth is agape and its eye listless. The other head's eyes are closed and mouth slightly parted.