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STATEMENT OF WORK
My current series of work explores personal and collective stories of identity, home, and humanness through small, process-orientated, abstract compositions on paper. I use masking fluid to build up layers of disparate applications of acrylic paint that eventually, through their relationality, become suggestive of things in the world. This research-creation practice explores a formalist methodology that abstains from modernist tendencies toward reduction, to rather contemplate the fluctuating quality of form. The simplicity of a line within an abstract painting, for example, mobilizes a simultaneity of sight, where line is always itself and other: an edge, a color, a shape, and even a shadow. To consider form as a manifold event is to question the conditions and reproductions of what constitutes ideas of bodies and being. It is a Copernican leap[1] of centers to peripheries.
[1] McKittrick, “Sylvia Wynter on Being”, 46. This reference to a Copernican leap thinks with Sylvia Wynter in her exploration of W.E.B Dubois and Frantz Fanon’s “new Copernican leap” instigated through the “self-reflexive” conception of “double consciousness”. To see form as relational and not independently constituted, I argue, is a “self-reflexive” consciousness of the doubling of form as both solid and unstable; independent and variegated.