Works from September 2022 to April 2024

The vision for this body of work is to translate the feelings black women feel throughout our life as well as how we present ourselves, relating to how we express ourselves with our hair, demonstrating how it serves to make us feel powerful and confident in a society that doesn't allow us to do this. It's about black women’s expression and our struggle with our acceptance. This focuses on how our hair is a big part of our personal identity.

Serenity 

Collage with magazine photos and oil pastel on paper

30 x 41 cm

September 2022

This is a composition of magazine photos of mostly nature but also other elements from our reality mixed together. This work is a representation/translation of the feeling of serenity that a person feels when they are in complete balance and acceptance with their own identity, which for me in the case of black women is their hair. But the artwork also serves as a critique. Because it's a surrealist work, so in a way it shows that, in the reality of modern society, it's not realistic for black women to find themselves in this state of complete acceptance, a consequence of society's position saying otherwise.

Aquarium Distress.

Embroidery and oil pastel on paper 

March/April 2024

This artwork is a depiction of how black women are always put inside a box by society, being constantly stereotyped, many times not being able to choose how they present themselves due to people's already pre-determination for them. It's an analogy to how fish , when placed in a limited space, aren't able to reach their full potential and be who they truly are, as they would if they were free in the ocean.