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  • Dreaming South
  • Artist Statement
  • THE INBETWEEN SPACES
  • MEDIA ARCHIVE
  • MEMORY MATTER(S)
  • Collaborative Explorations
  • Performance Index
  • Smithsonian Research Fellowship
  • Heritage Settlement Retreat
  • Southern Android Heritage House
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Installation works


Temples of my Familiar  

       Contrary to popular belief the  spirit and non physical realm of existence is not an exclusive reality tucked away in the clouds awaiting our departure for its embrace. Instead it is thinly veiled in plain sight and there can be focused gestures and petitions towards seeking and experiencing more of its essence through ritual.  In search of my Familiar is a suite  of ongoing multimedia  ritual installations  that explore the intersections between ancestral totems  and  my intuitive spatial, performance and sculptural creative practice.

       Mercy Oduyoye wrote, “ Religion and culture are so intertwined throughout the African Diaspora that you cannot speak of one without the other.We are, in sum, incomplete or unfinished animals who complete or finish ourselves through culture, making it a vital necessary in our development.  Culture is able to manifest and evolve through peoples willingness to be carries of information and data expressions from a higher creative consciousness that both contributes to biological survival as well as expansion in spiritual intelligence(s). African traditional concepts of being show a belief in a potential energy stored in objects and through investigations and explorations with material are we able to harness  the latent energy in those objects. 
     
       It is everywhere , it flows through all  and thus conspicuous objects  like the washboard, curio cabinets, quilt or metal spoons become the new totems from which this divine force is drawn. Even in our digital technologies there exists methods of harnessing divine energies and broadening communication  with the etheric realm,  turning the power of expanded sight back on the world , saturating the everyday with personal and spiritual significance. Below is an archived compilation of images detailing installations works that work to channel said significance. 
                                              Enjoy. 



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MFA Thesis Exhibition:  Mo'lasses

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Molasses is an interdisciplinary ethnographic installation inspired from the material collection of artist Viktor le Givens, who after beginning ancestral research becomes inspired by the spiritual folk customs of the rural south. Through careful curation and environmental design the artist aims to conjure a corner that fuses pre and post colonial spirit traditions with mundane southern vernacular objects.

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Iteration One:
The retrieval 

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 Dreaming South: 
A gothic Narrative. 
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Iteration Three: 
The Assembly 

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I excite when I hear read watch once lived story poems of emancipation's Jubilation--cotton picking plucked in burlap sacs full of weevils wobbling 'bout the treacherous bulb-- drifted on the shores of the Atlantic in the bosom of Osun where cakes were offerings of meal tilled and readied by han-- the stars and mathematics--rituals and villages filled with shoes made for walking the nomadic tribes --the drifters the seeds--  it all reminds me of my reason, gives possibility on as to how life was simplicity tightly wove sewn crocheted into complexity, cause those living then considered what life living would be fore me in the now."

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