Works Rendered in Various Materials to Produce Sculptural Work

Title: Labyrinth Cage

Date Completed: September 2021

Medium: Toothpicks, Glue, Metallic Acrylic Paint

Inspiration/ Reflection: Creating a sound structure to hold a raw egg that was aesthetically pleasing

Title: Metallic Rounds

Date Completed: September 2021

Medium: Floral Foam, Glue, Toothpicks, Metalic Paint

Inspiration/Reflection: Subtractive Sculpture, wanting to create organic round shapes that could support each other as one structure

Title: Natural Bodies

Date Completed: October 21

Medium: Clay and Acrylic

Inspiration/ Reflection: Exploring the body that is not traditionally ideal by western standards but considered ethnically ideal. Presented in a non sexually exploitative way, with a grace and softness not reserved for black women.

Jump Rope Antiquity I

Date Completed: November 2021

Medium: Clothesline and Hairbeads

Inspiration/Reflection: To take items nostalgic in African American tradition, reimagined as couture. Hand tied and beaded to create a textile shaped into a gown.

Jump Rope Antiquity II

Date Completed: November 2021

Medium: Clotheline, Wig stand, Hair Beads, Glue, Mud, Water, Acrylic Paint, Concrete, Hammered Top Coat Finish

Inspiration/ Reflection: To take items Nostalgic and synonymous with Modern African American culture and give it the antiquity it will never have by bathing it in natural elements, returning them to a new indigenous space.