"Almost Primary: The Blue Period (La Période Bleue), I"

Artist Statement:
Disrupting the status quo of invisibility, these self-portraits give into the ebb and flow that Black women face regularly. Our existence falls into the grumbling white noise of “the other” as we continue to be silenced and unseen. "Almost Primary" seeks to unearth the words left unsaid, the tears choked back, but, above all, the resilience and astonishing vitality that lives within the Black woman. “Primal” is a word constantly attributed to Blackness so the term “primary” brings a way to challenge perceptions of Blackness through these bold colors. Adopting the primary color palette, the works expose varying elements of emotion and are a method of obscuring the body into invisibility; thus engaging in the controversial act of nearly dissolving Blackness entirely. This work is amongst the first of an ongoing series, "Almost Primary."