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Love my life :) 5/6/23 plus a new tattoo and new designs for the newest release of rolling papers :)

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Lots of cool shit happened :) school is finally over as of this literal moment - amen 🙏🏾🦋🧿🥲❤️‍🩹😮‍💨🤌🏾🥹

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Crazy successful 4/20 . Opened my first fashion show -more pics in that later but couldn’t have done it without the crew. Had my first dj set at Mecca for my event Mecca Jane , highlighted some of the most talented bodies in the city and played fresh underground beats . Had my first year review this morning, I think it went well but lord Jesus I’ve lost my nerve talking in public! Also trying to finish my install for the show on Tuesday (then I’m officially done with school) - but it’s crashed 3x so I’m going home 🫠 to rest & attempt to associate & try again Monday amen

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Getting prepped for the first year review on Friday! 😮‍💨🫠

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This is the shit I’m doing….I’ll post the statement now that as I’ve almost reached my image limit 🫠 I’m excited by these things :) 🦋 also a little too overwhelmed to post anything informative rn. Got a fashion show tomorrow (4/20) my first ever dj/host gig in the evening, first year review on 21st, DAAPworks on 25th and then another fashion show May 6th and then I’ll probably be able to associate and communicate with words 🥲 going to Miami to visit one of my best friends who I haven’t seen in 3+ years - that’s on May 27th so between May 6th and then I will likely disappear 😮‍💨 gotta recharge after all this Aries energy

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The statement…..

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More research and a personal hot take 🤓😮‍💨🤔💭

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Research for spaces and self second install. Deep diving into cincinnatis crazy segregation lineage. The Underground Railroad ended here, but racism and segregation are alive and flourishing here. Cincinnati is the 6th most segregated city is the United States with more than 40% of the city’s population being Black. Immigrants have a higher statistic of assimilation than “native blacks”.

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hella work posted / added on here throughout the week/weekend —— making progress on a cool paper , watching it form as I’m forming it lol jus an amalgamation of files in my Google drive rn but something beautiful is cooking 👩🏾‍🍳

Goin back n forth on locations for second install - now I’m thinking of presenting a garment as opposed to consuming wall space - or making a large vinyl? For the annex window? -(most likely in hindsight) The big wall of DAAP pictured? Of me wearing said garment with the original IM NOT BLACK IM BLACK printed? Having a QR code embedded that takes them to a landing page that’s just a “simple poem”/digital installation by me about what I mean , then they can navigate deeper into my website if they so choose…. Hmmm idk sounds cool idk what im choosing yet fr fr tho but I feel the percolation and I know some people might deem this procrastinator but I really feel very on top of it even thought it’s still vague to me….

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Research and my upcoming events

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Working on so many things….

Really connecting more and more with the idea of a mostly auditory paper…gonna play with editing and formatting today….

I think I will go back to a vinyl for my second install. Something bigger than body that occupies a big window space….. “IM NOT BLACK IM BLACK” .

I have a writing for it….will transcribe here later….but rn I’d rather stretch and make a smoothie 🤸🏽‍♀️

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Mood boards for my two upcoming fashion shows (d8s on the pic) …. They both come themed, the rebirth show requires an all new line….these plus my first year mfa review on April 21st and an end of the year show on the 25th are consuming all of my time as I struggle to figure out what I want to do for my second install for this spaces and self course. Id like to use my May fashion show as an install because I’ll be having work in the gallery space as well but it’s after the deadline…..idk the fuckin bus situation jus doesn’t make sense anymore to me…i don’t want to make spaces more comfortable or pretty….i want to make installations that start lengthy, extreme as in all sides pushed to beyond, conversations that span into week long conventions and idea sessions…..anyway idk what the fuuuuuuck to do about the final paper for mrins spaces and self seminar, different classes same topic wildly enough…. But yea I’m not feelin the formal paper vibe…..seems counterproductive….but also not into embodying the rebel anymore. Just generally disinterested and over it I guess…..I just mean that rebellion is exhausting and once it dawned on me that rebellion is just another way of defining oneself off of, as well as reinforcing 🤮, the presumed status quo - it lost all of its appeal. So im also posting some drafts of my final paper as I’m now really liking the idea of an auditory paper….6000 spoken words as opposed to written….hmmmmm…idk something about glitch feminism is hitting different for me….I feel an expansion coming as I continue to read these books and explore art history “to bring context and grounding to my stance”....something about the French revolution.... where I feel I can articulate the fallacies I’m wrestling with….I can’t expound more on that right now but …a change is gon come.

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reminiscing🚶🏾‍♀️ . 📸: Berlin, Paris, Jacksonville, Cincinnati, Amsterdam circa 2018-2021 . remember when we lived in a van for 6 months?… . “It risks all - to be Born.” - Toni Morrison #selah (at Do Fashion Dont Drugs) https://www.instagram.com/p/CqLQWFnOea7/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Some studio updates :) got to spend some time with family in Tennessee over the spring break and got some good reminders to take the time to untangle what is You from that which bore you…..could proably reword that over and over again to be more poetic and insightful but idgaf bout that rn. So I started sawing the plaster thing…tedious. Michael Angelo and his ilk were insane. But either way, I’m having a lot of evolving thoughts about what these plaster chunks can become so that’s fun …started some other experiments with my hair collection in between sawing the behemoth….making a book and a canvas :) also started working on decorating these foam coolers I got at the recycling and reuse hub last semester bc they kept grabbing my attention for some rzn….I’m having ~community gathering type thoughts~ around them…thinking about keeping them functional as well…also starting to write some bad drafts for my final paper for Mrin’s class - also about space and self - the book pictures are from my new book Black Futures that I’m reading alongside of hood feminism and glitch feminism as personal research this semester …still working with Kamau Brathwaite as well as a bunch of other things I’m a little too exhausted to recount here…on the outside of school I also have two fashion shows coming up, one of which requires a whole new collection so that’s pretty exciting but also consuming me - I also still have homework and emails to do, no fucking clue what I’m doing for “this” class for our second installation….also some hw deadlines already passed lol…but that’s why I’m home now typing this as this is one more check off the list 🫡😮‍💨🙌🏾 I did manage to win a 3arts scholarship though, $3,400 👾

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There were so many opening happening this spring break weekend but my period and brain with this incredibly unstable and dramatic weather had me feeling all sorts of homebody ~ so I only went to one. At the summit hotel, since I was meeting up with a friend that day anyway to talk about the next Small World Market happening this spring. - more to come on that in later daze -

Here are some pictures of what I saw at the summit hotel exhibition art for food. I’m not sure how I feel about it conceptually but there were some super talented people represented. My friend and I were the only noticeably colored people present, and although my professor Xia is Cantonese and not white passing per say, she can blend in from the back. I’ve taken to noticing these things when in powerful institutions. And I mean power in that It can trample on anyone else in its peripheral environment simply bc of access via class. Maybe it’s because I started reading hood feminism (and finally bought glitch feminism & black futures for myself) that I’m like stuck in this rhetoric/lens of the world …idk what I’m tryna say except that I’m tired of shows curated by affluent white woman. But I don’t want a permed smooth talkin acceptable black woman either ….idk what the fuck I want. That’s what I’ve been REALLY thinking about. What the fuck is the point of my art ya know. It’s not like drake lyrics or young thug songs even though I love trap music I also deeply reject a lot of what they perpetuate. Same with the designer world, like fashion in general. Like haute couture conversations and galas like…what the fuck is the point and who is my audience and what is the goal of blending a society what is the new age order what is heaven and what does equality even mean ….

Anyway here’s some pics

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Had a show March 9th for this installation class I’ve been making these posts for this semester. One more month to go, we’re on spring break now but somehow I still have so much shit to do. Just got informed that my first year review is April 21st and my next show is April 23rd. That I also have to curate bc it’s all the mfa students 🥲 salty af i had to install in this gallery space though since the whole point of this assignment was to get out of the gallery and had to organize, set up and clean a reception I never wanted after an in really long and draining day of crits…But one thing academia will do is challenge and crush you so 💐🦋.

I also have two fashion shows, one requires an entirely new collection around the theme of rebirth. 4/20 and 5/6. Then I hope to be in Japan for all of June and disappear from you hoes “forever” 👻