In The Dark, We Lose Our Edges is an immersive installation created for the 15th edition of the Sharjah Biennial. This project consists of three ceramic busts set in a sea of blue sand amidst freestanding faux boulders and surrounded by a 2100 sq. ft. immersive wall painting. This surreal landscape is accompanied by an original soundscape composed by Chris Pattishall and encircled by 8 large-scale diptychs that combine cyanotype and watercolor processes. The total work is an homage to the trickster and shapeshifter figures that interrupt legibility and corrupt the colonial imaginary.
In The Dark, We Lose Our Edges, installation view, 2023
Three Secrets of a Tsunami, 2022
Ceramic, gold leaf, epoxy, spray foam, acrylic paint
36 x 24 x 24 inches
Three Secrets of a Tsunami, 2022
Ceramic, gold leaf, epoxy, spray foam, acrylic paint
36 x 24 x 24 inches
Three Secrets of a Tsunami, 2022
Ceramic, gold leaf, epoxy, spray foam, acrylic paint
36 x 24 x 24 inches
A Fugitive Sun, 2022
Ceramic, gold leaf, epoxy
24 x 18 x 18 inches
A Fugitive Sun, 2022
Ceramic, gold leaf, epoxy
24 x 18 x 18 inches
Three Questions of a Tsunami, 2022
Ceramic, epoxy, acrylic paint
36 x 24 x 24 inches
Three Questions of a Tsunami, 2022
Ceramic, epoxy, acrylic paint
36 x 24 x 24 inches
Three Questions of a Tsunami, 2022
Ceramic, epoxy, acrylic paint
36 x 24 x 24 inches
In The Dark, We Lose Our Edges, installation view, 2023
A Temporary Understanding of John W. Cooper, 2022
Watercolor, ink and cyanotype on paper
72 x 72 inches each
A Temporary Understanding of Octavia Butler, 2022
Watercolor, ink and cyanotype on paper
72 x 72 inches each
A Temporary Understanding of Ellen Craft, 2022
Watercolor, ink and cyanotype on paper
72 x 72 inches each
A Temporary Understanding of Yma Sumac, 2022
Watercolor, ink and cyanotype on paper
72 x 72 inches each
A Temporary Understanding of Samuel. R Delany, 2022
Watercolor, ink, collage and cyanotype on paper
72 x 72 inches each
A Temporary Understanding of Kool Keith, 2022
Watercolor, ink, collage and cyanotype on paper
72 x 72 inches each
A Temporary Understanding of Grace Jones, 2022
Watercolor, ink, collage, and cyanotype on paper
72 x 72 inches each
A Temporary Understanding of John the Conqueror, 2022
Watercolor, ink and cyanotype on paper
72 x 72 inches each