H.N.I.C. : Head nigga in charge #1
       
     
Memory and Meaning / Sculpture & Installations
Some People I've Met Along the Way, (excerpt), 2019. graphite on paper; 11 (x) 17 inches.
       
     
Memory and Meaning / Drawings & Prints
On Higher Ground (conceptual drawing) pen and ink on transparency paper; 2017.
       
     
Memory and Meaning / Conceptual Drawings and Project Proposals
Blocked at Five Points Performance Film; photo montage; performance As the on-air host for the PBS documentary 37 Weeks: Sherman on the March-- which chronicles Union General William Tecumseh Sherman’s “march to the sea”—I was absolutely astonished to learn that the buying and selling of human beings took place at Five Points MARTA Station in Atlanta, the symbolic locale where north, south, east, and west meet, and yet there is no historical marker or public indicator of any kind to honor those unknown souls who passed from auction block to plantation at the heart of Atlanta’s public transportation corridor. Equally troubling is that the Margaret Mitchell House, located less than two and half miles away, preserves the memory of the author of the celebrated novel Gone With the Wind which features a slave mammy as one of the central characters of the book. The juxtaposition of these two lived realities—one institutionalized and preserved; the other lost and forgotten—represents Atlanta’s inability to reconcile its present day identity with its troubled past. More specifically it is emblematic of a systematic attempt to control the historical narrative through a process of memory erasure. Blocked at Five Points aspires to arrest our predisposition to forget our past by drawing attention to slavery’s proximity to our present.
       
     
Memory and Meaning / Performances
Tight Packers A Depleted Harvest_2.jpg
       
     
Memory and Meaning / Artist cv
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Memory and Meaning / Artist Statement