ARTIST
STATEMENT
My work is informed by historical
textile art and traditional West African
textile objects and practices (techniques, materials, and purposes).
I'm especially interested in material culture as it manifests
in divinatory objects, quilts and other objects used by women in
everyday life. My work is a
meditation. I meditate on life as a black woman in America in
this time.
My work is also an exploration of the
relationships between past and
present, history and herstory, physical and spiritual life.
These meditations and explorations have led me to discover much
about the lives of women in other places,
times, and circumstances. I celebrate
their lives and my own by continuing to use the materials and processes
traditionally viewed as being in the sphere of women; cloth, piecing,
embroidery, embellishment.
By arranging things: words, fabric,
proverbs, patterns, symbols, colors,
gathered objects, I'm trying to understand my position in this
world and share my understandings with the
viewer.
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