To take colonization out of my art,
I wanted to peel off the different conventions of performance to embrace spontaneity. It is about stepping as far away from a product with a market. Instead, all I need is a witness.
This picture is called Urban Libation; A Song in Stills, a spontaneous expression of a song my grandmother could have taught me… To hear it, you had to be there.
Grann Charité, who I never met, is the inspiration for this seed. Last year, during the Prismatic Festival experience, I started my journey with my paternal grandmother, Grann Charité and her gestures never left. They resurfaced while I sang for this seed.
I took her to the ocean. She never saw the Atlantic but, I went so, she went. For these pictures, my feet aren’t in the ocean, but they are in water.
These pictures come from a short video which I would always play mute.
There is also fast slide show of the pictures…
