A homage to what made me, me and a reclaiming of what wasn’t realized during incubation.
Approaching ideas surrounding identification, preservation, and the power of altering intimidation. A call for empathy with intimacy in scale and materials. Using craft materials to rewrite narratives preserved in the South, queering traditions and ideologies through the act of removing the executed use of objects to leave viewers holding only intent. A practice that identifies the power of acquiring self-agency through rewriting past Southern norms, and countering reductions of alternative narratives. These ideas find form in craft materials as literal remaking of traditions. Working with clay as the duality of masculine and feminine, fabric as an archive of smells and memories, and the objecthood of knick- knacks speaking to domestic dusty spaces.