ARRIVAL
This body of work emerged during the quarantine period in 2020. Being on lockdown for those few months while being in the studio forced me to sit with myself and my work. This work almost became therapeutic in the process from start to finish. By setting up my phone on self timer and posing freely in my studio chair to then painting those images in seascapes.I was also fascinated by the fact that some people were unrecognizable to me with their mask on so I created 'proxified' masks for these self portraits. Merging my proxy and myself into a whole new being.
The Arrival series has become a prequel to the Tropical Gaze series where it gives insight to the ‘physical birth’ of these proxies. The ocean is an entity and symbol in itself that’s represents baptism and birth. As the proxy/I crawl onto the beach my proxy and I have hybridized into one. The proxies live in a new paradise (Tropical Gaze) …at once exposed and emotionally unreachable with their camouflaged bodies and red lips, they look like some sort of tropical fruits among the surrounding foliage. I am trying to hint at the histories (pop cultures and art) of black females and women being seen as objects of pleasure and servitude.
The Neap Arrival Of My Proxy
30 x 48
Oil on Canvas
2020
30 x 48
Oil on Canvas
2020
Empirical Dreams Of My Arrival
30 x 48
Oil on Canvas
2020
30 x 48
Oil on Canvas
2020
Gazing Upon A Sodom Paradise
30 x 48
Oil on Canvas
2020
30 x 48
Oil on Canvas
2020
Sun, Sand and Allegory
24 x 36
Oil on Canvas
2020
24 x 36
Oil on Canvas
2020
The Island Of Great Tribulation
Oil on Canvas
30 x 48 inches
2020
Oil on Canvas
30 x 48 inches
2020
Devotion and Quick Sand
24 x 36
Oil on Canvas
2020
24 x 36
Oil on Canvas
2020
The Creation Of Bubbles
30 x 48
Oil and Glitter on Canvas
2021
30 x 48
Oil and Glitter on Canvas
2021
Our Salvation
24 x 36
Oil and Glitter on Canvas
2021
24 x 36
Oil and Glitter on Canvas
2021
This Time I Am Taking Paradise With Me
36 x 48
Oil on Canvas
2021
36 x 48
Oil on Canvas
2021
Contemplation Of A Life Of Paradise
30 x 48
Oil on Canvas
2022
30 x 48
Oil on Canvas
2022
Melting Pot
43 x 49
Oil on Canvas
2022
43 x 49
Oil on Canvas
2022
Siren
40 x 60
Oil on Canvas
2022
40 x 60
Oil on Canvas
2022
Low Tide
40 x 60
Oil on Canvas
2022
40 x 60
Oil on Canvas
2022
Last Day Of Summer
43 x 64
Oil on Canvas
2022
43 x 64
Oil on Canvas
2022
A Sea Bath
20 x 25
Oil on Canvas
2023
20 x 25
Oil on Canvas
2023
Societal Cleanse
23 x 29
Oil on Canvas
2023
23 x 29
Oil on Canvas
2023
The Pillar Of Salt
50.5 x 62
Oil on Canvas
2023
50.5 x 62
Oil on Canvas
2023