The submitted picture is taken from a current project in progress focusing on the body's potential to communicate through gesture and touch. The self-portrait is invested in the correlation of labor, land, and migration. Filtering artifacts, relics, and folklore, the image represents a search for performative physicality capable of addressing the historic and contemporary narrative surrounding our understanding of Americana and its inextricable ties to slavery.

I want to make a book in the near future that unites the images from this project in a meaningful way.