Class of 2021
My work is about self-acceptance and body positivity. I am learning to love and accept my own body and channel this personal growth into my ceramics.
Reacting to media images of celebrity culture and the movement of fabric in Couture runway fashion shows, I am deeply impacted by contemporary American beauty ideals. Utilizing Hip-hop’s cultural messages of defiance and historical platform for presenting underrepresented voices, song titles and slang become titles for my work, in order to be assertive.
My sculptures mimic parts of my body, through folds and undulations. Stains and under-glazes allow me to bring in my fashion inspired print and fabric surfaces. Gold luster is used to symbolically reference high self-confidence as well as the great monetary value society places on wealth and status, especially as seen through Hip-Hop’s cultural underpinnings.
Focusing on pink as the main subject of my sculptural objects. Very often in the plus-sized community, we are told not dress in bright colors because it is very unflattering on a bigger body type. We are advised to wear black and darker tones to make our body more flattering and to actually hide our bodies from society. My work is about uplifting yourself no matter what society says about the image of women. This body of work is about re-owning the color pink and the power that the color has for every different type of women, because we are all pink where it counts, especially the color of flesh.
Baddie
Baddie detail
I Keep it Juicy, I Eat That Lunch
I Keep it Juicy, I Eat That Lunch (Detail)
My Body is a Drug
Fuck a 9 to 5 I Was Born a Leader
Fuck a Snack I'm the Whole Damn Meal
WAP
