Hey Sunshine
Sometimes being the 'sunshine' just means you're the version of Blackness everyone feels safe around.
This piece looks at how colorism shows up in everyday interactions. The lighter face gets the friendly greeting, the warm reception, the assumption of being 'easy' to deal with. But the darker hand covering the mouth suggests what gets silenced in those same spaces. The uncomfortable void of micro-agressions and the silence of personal realities unspoken.
The jewelry as hair represents all the ways we get decorated and celebrated for being the right kind of palatable.
Archival print on museum quality paper
Sometimes being the 'sunshine' just means you're the version of Blackness everyone feels safe around.
This piece looks at how colorism shows up in everyday interactions. The lighter face gets the friendly greeting, the warm reception, the assumption of being 'easy' to deal with. But the darker hand covering the mouth suggests what gets silenced in those same spaces. The uncomfortable void of micro-agressions and the silence of personal realities unspoken.
The jewelry as hair represents all the ways we get decorated and celebrated for being the right kind of palatable.
Archival print on museum quality paper
Sometimes being the 'sunshine' just means you're the version of Blackness everyone feels safe around.
This piece looks at how colorism shows up in everyday interactions. The lighter face gets the friendly greeting, the warm reception, the assumption of being 'easy' to deal with. But the darker hand covering the mouth suggests what gets silenced in those same spaces. The uncomfortable void of micro-agressions and the silence of personal realities unspoken.
The jewelry as hair represents all the ways we get decorated and celebrated for being the right kind of palatable.
Archival print on museum quality paper