My It Takes A Village series of works is an empathic celebration of place born from my time in Louisiana. The eerie mysticism of this land is represented as a show of respect to the women weaving that magic. These spiritual vessels are in conversation with the history of containers that respond to the environmental realities of cultural geographies. The multitude of hands warping into an expression of growth and beginning, alludes to the ability of community-building as a way to subvert the oppressive forces of capitalism.
My making process combines digital found objects with physical found objects to craft visceral, virtual-physical objects. These artifacts question the delineation between natural and artificial by returning digital representations of human limbs to the physical. This actualization of agency is essential to our really-lived humanity, and disrupts the tyranny of the metaverse.
It Takes A Village: Water Spirit, 2021, Polylactic Acid, Nylon, Enamel