I’m honored to have my installation Blackity Black Blanket included in Interpretations 2025 at the Visions Museum of Textile Art in San Diego, on view October 17, 2025 – January 10, 2026.
Blackity Black Blanket is both comfort and confrontation. It began as a meditation on visibility, a way to hold space for Black identity, protection, and joy in a world that too often seeks to define or constrain.
Constructed from recycled fishing nets and more than 40,000 zip ties, each knot carries the cumulative weight of cultural memory and the tender act of self-soothing. The blanket form evokes safety and belonging, while its deep black presence reclaims a color too often associated with absence or fear. Here, blackness becomes radiant, layered, textural, and alive; asserting itself as beauty, resilience, and truth.
The ladders woven into the installation reference the hidden struggles and quiet ascents Black women navigate daily, the unspoken microaggressions, the constant climb toward acknowledgment, and the grace it takes to keep rising.
This work is a reminder that softness and strength can coexist, that to wrap ourselves in our own stories is an act of both resistance and love.
