Conceptual Materials Social Practice Artist
My social practice builds community through conversation about shared experiences… via story ribbons tied to a net.
Free Your Mind focuses on exposing microaggressions. The community is invited to share a personal experience with bias to release this interaction from their personal narrative.
So far more than 5000 story ribbons have been collected.
Meet Sylvan Goldman, inventor of the shopping cart.
Oklahoma grocery store magnate Sylvan Goldman invented the shopping cart in 1936 — and went on to become a shopping-cart manufacturer and benefactor of many Oklahoma charities and institutions.
(Image: State Museum Collection, Sam Flood Collection, Oklahoma Historical Society)
Learn more about him HERE.
I like to use a mix of materials and narratives to imprint memories of racial trauma onto my work as a means of release.
I source my materials in bulk through a network of generous friends and family members. In the finished works, I can identify specific bottle cap styles by the individual who collected them for me.
My work includes two-dimensional works, sculptural pieces, and installation in which the surface details draw the viewer inward to explore materiality.
My work is the celebration of the alchemy that occurs when disparate materials are assembled to create something new, more beautiful, and more purposeful.
My work is interactive. It invites the viewer to confront their own emotional baggage.
Today I need a little Wonder Woman transformation to keep going…
Shopping carts can represent capitalism, consumerism, and aspiration for wealth, status, and success.
Natural dyes from kola nuts and indigo have been used to make tie-dye in Gambia for generations. But more and more artisans have been replacing these traditional ingredients with imported chemical dyes. Today, Musa Jaiteh is the last artisan in his town in Gambia still using only natural dyes and traditional techniques. For more information on Musa’s fabrics, check out: https://www.africanfabric.co.uk/fabri…