the seven serpents
machine of spiritual protection (activation of physical self & conscious soul).
An Anger Reckoning against the terror of dimensional weathering.
Misery Resistance., 2019
Mixed-media assemblage
111 x 67 x 7.5 inches
HEAVY
(the heart and the love to carry in the body)
and, Kiese Laymon’s Heavy, in reflection on Love and Responsibility; Responsible Loving. HEAVY on Black Girls and the systemic torture of their Innocence. HEAVY. The perceived living response to a lack of, or dearth of a Innocence.
The Cost Of it., 2019
Mixed-media assemblage
101 x 31 x 22 inches
N is for Niggerette
Mommy Had, No, *Was* PTSD.
Some Things Were Not Her Fault
It Cost A Lot. The Edge Came In Hard And Sharp And Danced Right Through Her Tenderness; It Submerged Her.
Sometimes I Could See Her Through A Crack In A Door In Another Room.
Scar On My Face When I Was Five. Blood In Mouth., 2019
Mixed-media assemblage
85 x 56 x 26 inches
The Runner
Run and Fight.
Don’t let your white friend’s father touch your panties.
Circle Running
Rape Proof, or Un-Rape-able?, 2019
Mixed-media assemblage
84 x 48 x 18 inches
For Black Boys Who've Considered Suicide
Body
Soul
Space Between, 2019
Mixed-media assemblage
72 x 73 x 24 inches
ELVAINA: RIGHTEOUS CREATURE. A HOUSE UPON HER HEAD. NOT GROUNDED. CREATURE IF FLIGHT. HOSPITAL WORKER. BEAT FACE 4:32pm. SECOND SHIFT. AND SCRUBS. ↑ = FLIGHT & FIGHT— SIMULTANEOUSLY., 2019
Mixed media assemblage
75 x 50 x 13 inches
Hammer Head
Rage Machine
Agony Machine
Baptism, 2019
Mixed-media assemblage
70 x 36 x 26 inches
LUENDA: DARK BLACK. WITCH. BEATS FACE WITH MOON LIGHT. AGGRESSIVE NAP LOVER. X= IMPERVIOUS = DEEP LOVE., 2019
Mixed-media assemblage
66.5 x 20 x 11.5 inches
GLORIA. CHANGED HER NAME TO OSHUN. ONLY WEARS WHITE. BEATS FACE FOR GROCERY STORE, BUS STOP, ITAL RESTAURANT. O= LOVING. LIFE PRESERVER., 2019
Mixed-media assemblage
65 x 25 x 11 inches
HEAVEN: 7:23am BUS STOP. BEAT FACE. CROWN. SHE IS NOT LOOKING FOR YOU. N=NOT NOW. NOT EVER. = SNAKE IN THE SOUL. & THE BLUES THEN., 2019
Mixed-media assemblage
64.5 x 27 x 8.5 inches
Hyper Sensitive
Feeling Machine
Body.Soul.Emotion.
Volume Control, 2019
Mixed-media assemblage
55 x 30 x 17 inches
Joy Machine #3
Kick Push
Ring The Alarm
Fly, 2019
Mixed-media assemblage
54 x 94 x 22 inches
SHEKEIA: 11:19am. MCDONALDS DRIVE-THRU.BEATS FACE. HAIR SWINGS AT ASS LEVEL= PROTECTION= O= COVERED = ENSCONCED., 2019
Mixed-media assemblage
49.5 x 23 x 10 inches
Venus Madonna Of Tenderness
To Tender the Touch and the Sight and the Knowing Upon This Earth., 2019
Mixed-media collage on New York Times magazine
42.5 x 24 x 9 inches
More than one thing is happening at the same time, 2019
Wood with plaster figures
35 x 59 x 13 inches
Throwback Venus of Cornrows & Beads, 2019
Mixed-media collage on New York Times magazine
30 x 11 x 2 inches
Venus Madonna Healer of Even The Future Blues
(That the Healing come complete; That we no longer have to drag the trauma from body to body.), 2019
Mixed-media collage on New York Times magazine
29 x 16 x 5 inches
Venus Madonna Muse of Grounding Soul to Body to Earth: Gold then. Gold Running through the Universe, to Our Earth Sky on heels of Sun Fire, into your body from the top of your head, through to the soles of your feet, and then into the Earth, to her core, (liquid fire) and, back around again, and again= That you Always know where and What HOME is., 2019
Mixed-media collage on New York Times magazine
27.5 x 19 x 3 in
Venus in Butterflies, 2019
Mixed-media collage on New York Times magazine
25 x 16 x 3 inches
Venus as an Opera Diva, 2019
Mixed-media collage on New York Times magazine
23.5 x 21.5 x 3.5 inches
Serena as Black Madonna #2, 2015
Mixed-media collage on Vogue magazine
16 x 10.5 x 1.5 inches