Chromosome 15. 7'2" tall. Varied in all other directions.

CHROMOSOME 15: responsible for the gene receptor that translates melanin content into human skin proteins, and also into the eyes. One of perhaps four or five sculptures.

Yea, I know

Language can be so abstract.

The "other" fabric

24 x 36 inches. Burlap.

"Children, when they ask you why your mama so funny, say she is a poet, she don't have no sense"

NOTHING (and everything) BUT NET

The frame is a part of the piece. Design and stereotypes, market value and cultural ideology, all wrong, and so right.

Abstract Templates for voice

Thses are templates for voice. Still in progress...

Chromosomes

Material manifestations of each of the chromosomes known the affect melanin pigmentation, hair texture, and their respective recpetors...or just turds.. :)

Traces

Graphite on paper. Negation of figures to collerate with the negation of history.

Abstract Afro-ism

Donated to a wonderful foundation in Los Angeles. The name escapes me because it does not matter. Art is for the world, no matter who it is.

"We Keep Our Dirt Floors Clean and White"

"Nappy Chronicles"

"If I told you what I heard, You wouldn't believe me"

Language, Semantics, Religion, Oppression, Freedom, Despair....

Part of the "Ten" with "Runaway Negro"

Just a small juried show at University Art Gallery at the University of California Irvine. I was one of "Ten" with my piece "Runaway Negro", a series of drawing sthat explores and comments on current politcal situations with the past and opens dialogue with how these histories sometimes parallel one another.

My work... 2006- 2007

"Hurricane Katrina"
"Martin"
"Neck"

"I Was There Too"

This is a series of 5 collaged photographs on Burlap. I have inserted myself into history, literally.

"Crime Scenes"

Monica's work....

My blue period.