Falling Fences is a new site specific installation about my ongoing concern with migration and borders. It is composed of barbed wire and photographs from my research trip to the US/Mexican border in Texas. The installation shows the endless tangled barriers to crossing the border, an imaginary line that has real consequences, separating people and cultures.
Month: August 2021
Gala: Importance of Indigo in Malian Culture
I presented Gala: Importance of Indigo in Malian Culture, this short paper, virtually at the 12th International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS12) in Kyoto, Japan. The cultivation and weaving of cotton dates back more than a thousand years in Mali, as do the techniques for processing and dyeing with indigo which grows wild and is also cultivated. Archeological excavations at …
Don’t Shut Up 2021
-Isms, 39 inches x 24 inches x 24 inches, steel, 1993 Through interruptions, censure, violence and threatening behavior — both in person and online — women are silenced every day. Don’t Shut Up presents the work of 47 woman-identifying artists from across the US and Canada who are working to challenge and disrupt the status quo through their ongoing artistic …
Beyond the Ground and the Sky
Meandering Border (Rio Grande) 1, Steel, 20″ x 30″ The sculptures in the show are positive and negative drawing in space about migration, travel and movement. Migration is a continuing theme in my work. Meandering Border (Rio Grande)1 was inspired by my research trip to the US/Mexican border in Texas. The line of the border map is cut into rusty steel using …