About

ARTIST STATEMENT:
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A large body of my work deals with environmentalism, PNW conifers, old growth trees, endangered animals and climate change.

If according to Western ideologies, as a ‘black person’ objectified by capitalism and western ideas of ‘othering,’ then ALL of my work IS black art and comes from that identity.

I am that subject itself, identity itself that is not total. The problem with Western theories of identity is that difference is perfectly defined and delineated, which is an aggregate of differences.

The dominate culture stamps itself in me, makes me and my identity tolerated, but by making my identity as an 'African American Artist' explicit this puts me and my work under surveillance in a way that mainstream artists are not.

The problem is that the map of interculturality does not take into account the blind spots, the shadows, the slips and residue; a space where zero is a value. My work is that ZERO, neither black art nor environmental art, but 'this &