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Axiomatik: Ugly Black Girl (site is near defunked to see images without text link here. Otherwise this project in its entirety is in the 2004 edition of Sarah Lawrence's Literary Journal for Students of Color, Dark Phrases.) Axiomatik: Ugly Black Girl is a project begun in Spring 2004. It dealt with issues of self examination for Black women at a time where my undergrad campus was very much involved with outsider's gazes. Here is my undergraduate proposal for the project: In this project I will create a series of works, largely autobiographical that deal with issues of self esteem for young black girls. Specifically, I will be dealing with issues of beauty that will correlate with a narrative on my own experiences with each issue presented. Through example and responses to this work I would like to spark a dialogue between each Spelman student who views this work and herself. What do we really feel about out bodies? Why does it seem that we continue to have wars with our natural bodies because we want to look a certain way? What is the root of this? How were we taught to feel about ourselves and how long have we been fighting? In retrosepct the project was something that I wish I could have expanded. "Ugly Black Girl" was supposed to be one of many "axiomatik" projects which would be a series of anonymous art pieces that dealt with race, gender, and sexuality issues.

Sun Village In 2004 I began a personal project that dealt with displacement and the erasure of Black histories in Southern California. I'd been raised, for a portion of my childhood in a city named Palmdale. Adjacent to this city was an agricultural town named Littlerock. After coming home during a leave of absence in College I got a job in what i thought was Littlerock. On my way to work every day I passed a sign that said that i was entering Sun Village. I had questions about this and learned that my job was not in Littlerock, but in Sun Village. Sun Village was a historically Black town. In the 1950s and 60s it was the only town in the entire valley (Antelope Valley) that sold property to African Americans. Due to fast expansion however, the history of Sun Village is quickly being erased. The nearby High School which was in Sun Village was named Littlerock High (according to my zip code in Palmdale, I was supposed to attend this high school)--as if Sun Village and its settlers never lived there. In the gallery here I have landscapes of Sun Village at sunrise. I take them on Palmdale Boulevard, the main street in Sun Village that connects Palmdale to the small town. Portraits of local church leaders and heads of Chamber of Commerce in Sun Village are not displayed here due to lack of permissions.

Bishop Clagget Center This is not a project of any sort, just some beautiful landscapes taken at the Bishop Clagget Center in Buckeystown, MD during the first Sisterall Retreat. This was a week long retreat of Black women activists and artists across generations come to share thier stories. It was an amazing experience.

Photos No trick here. No concept. Just some photos of me.