When I first read Hiram's poem, "Pidgeon", based on his first funeral when he was young, there was a certain image that I had in my head. However, when I got my friend in the studio and the 4x5 camera set up and the lights hooked up, everything changed. But this one time in the studio, this only time, my head and my intuition were not united, and it started right when I began setting up the shot. My intuition took over and made "Pidgeon". While my past photographic work is personal and conceptual in nature, there are definite underlying themes, even though I like to keep them unarticulated for the viewer. These implicit themes include young Black girls, my relationship with my mother and sister, my superiority complex toward men, my disdain for my own heterosexuality, and my fascination with Bondage/Discipline/Domination/Submission/Sadism/Masochism. In my work, I like to use Black femaleness as the subject matter. This is because the Black female body is the most commodified body in the world and has been such for hundreds of years.
Artist's Statement...
Sometimes, an image will out of nowhere form in my head and will not go away. It will persist. When that happens, I know that I have to get these images out of me. I have to make them manifest, even if it takes years because of lack of time, because of brokenness.
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