In this work I reimagine hairstyling tools and symbols of identity with an alternative photographic process called cyanotype. Through digital manipulation, exposure techniques, composition, and layering, I create variance, rhythm, and blur inviting viewers to see familiar objects anew.

“art is necessarily a terrain of defamiliarization: it may take what we see/know and make us look at it in a new way.”

bell hooks

“the slave and the ex-slave wanted what had been severed: kin.”

Saidiya Hartman

“we are after the absolute presence of blur. blueblackblur is our concern.”

Fred Moten