Intern Josie Slaughter interviewed me about my motivation for the body of work that showed over the summer of 2019 at the Gardiner Shop: Family Matters.
Read the Interview
“[This work] is about telling the stories of who I am and where I came from. It’s about locating myself in a virtually monolithically white milieu as a child; about telling the stories of my parent’s struggles in the face of often violent racism; about really seeing who these people were in my past – both sets of great grandparents posturing to emulate a notion of ideal Victorianism – one as the colonizer, the other as the colonized. It’s all these things, and all of these things are about identity and culture, which is central to my sculpture practice.”
