THE WAIT WE CARRY
The Wait We Carry is a collection of photo based images inspired by the layered and complicated experience of ‘Being Black in America’. This collection is a recognition of thoughts, mantras, realities and conflicts that exist in our hearts and minds regularly. Though this work thematically fits comfortably with and may compliment my previous work it was definitely influenced by the Black Lives Matters Movement, George Floyd, Covid-19 and exudes more pain and frustration than previous works. I also employed some different techniques to achieve this desired aesthetic. Double exposures, layers, selective color and typography were all used to create these visual narratives. Each piece carries its own story that wrestles with its own conflict, reality and solutions.
Throughout the years, Black people have frequently been told to WAIT; time’s are changing, all you have to do is WAIT, it takes time for these things to happen, just WAIT, but the “WAITING” has tremendous “WEIGHT” and that WEIGHT is HEAVY. It’s a weight and heaviness that we’ve been carrying for 100’s of years and continue to pass on to the next generation, essentially passing the weight/wait on to our children.
