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Tin cans
As I take regular walks through my Hyattsville, MD neighborhood and in South East, DC, where I work, I collect discarded beer and soda cans that have been flattened in traffic. I cleanse and transform unwelcome trash into painted masks mounted and framed or integrated into small quilts. The frames are recycled thrift shop finds that I paint to echo the themes of the masks and the quilts are made primarily from scraps salvaged from fashion production.
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“America at the Crossroads” 2008
“America at the Crossroads” 2008 DESCRIPTION I was inspired to create this quilt, America at the Crossroads, during the course of the 2008 presidential campaign. The purportedly “improbable” candidacy of Barack Hussein Obama demanded intro/retrospection about American’s perennial challenge to reconcile the competing imperatives of race, gender, religion, class, nationality and sexual identity as we struggle to realize the vision [...] Read more...
River Mumma
River Mumma (River Mother) embodies the universal truth that water is life. In Jamaican folklore, she is the guardian of the river, conserving it for sustainable development. But River Mumma is a complex figure. Contradictorily benevolent and malevolent, she both protects and destroys. She exemplifies the paradoxical qualities of water: an essential life force and a torrential threat.
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