Unmothered
Digital prints from 35mm negatives on wood panel
Date: 2024
Image Dimensions: 16” x 20”
While not explicitly depicted in my source images, the images that compose these collages are tied to mothers, what Patricia Hill Collins calls “other mothers”, and matrilineal relationships with nature. As a researcher of 20th century black and mixed race family portraiture, I have always been drawn to how domestic intimacies can be represented beyond the body and onto material culture - in the circulation of heirloom objects, land, and photo albums. This new photo collage series looks to my personal and familial connection to plants and bodies of water that mediate my relationship to home and family. Abstracted through collage, these scenes are simultaneously aloof and alluring. “Unmothered” (2024) identifies the spaces that we open ourselves to when self-soothing, dissociating, and/or healing.
Digital prints from 35mm negatives on wood panel
Date: 2024
Image Dimensions: 16” x 20”
While not explicitly depicted in my source images, the images that compose these collages are tied to mothers, what Patricia Hill Collins calls “other mothers”, and matrilineal relationships with nature. As a researcher of 20th century black and mixed race family portraiture, I have always been drawn to how domestic intimacies can be represented beyond the body and onto material culture - in the circulation of heirloom objects, land, and photo albums. This new photo collage series looks to my personal and familial connection to plants and bodies of water that mediate my relationship to home and family. Abstracted through collage, these scenes are simultaneously aloof and alluring. “Unmothered” (2024) identifies the spaces that we open ourselves to when self-soothing, dissociating, and/or healing.
Digital prints from 35mm negatives on wood panel
Date: 2024
Image Dimensions: 16” x 20”
While not explicitly depicted in my source images, the images that compose these collages are tied to mothers, what Patricia Hill Collins calls “other mothers”, and matrilineal relationships with nature. As a researcher of 20th century black and mixed race family portraiture, I have always been drawn to how domestic intimacies can be represented beyond the body and onto material culture - in the circulation of heirloom objects, land, and photo albums. This new photo collage series looks to my personal and familial connection to plants and bodies of water that mediate my relationship to home and family. Abstracted through collage, these scenes are simultaneously aloof and alluring. “Unmothered” (2024) identifies the spaces that we open ourselves to when self-soothing, dissociating, and/or healing.