PERFORMANCES
Experimenting with moving images and performance art Rain: This Tongue Cuts (2019) references Haitian-Ritual movement and praise dancing. A journey through genuine and authentic forms of self— using the body and its extensions and the way it swells as a metaphor for language. Rain creates a ceremonial visual for the viewer. With original sound experimentation by James Balo, he is highlighting the ideology of Black vernacular and dialect in the Black community and experiences with language finding a home. Rain depicts how language moves in a space when being rejected.
AXE’ BOUT ME
Axe’ Bout Me: A Prelude to Rain is a photography series documenting a permance thinking of language--more specifically Black Vernacular and how it grows,
how it functions, and moves when in a space that doesn’t accept it. Visual ideas on how Black folks language is constantly corrected and how language fluctuates and depreciates when trying to conform.