The Plantation Imagination is a series of mixed media artworks that envision Black history as a chemical and geological churning. It is a resistant reading of the reports and travelogues of white scientists and a subversion of historically rooted horrors of numeracy.
Using soil, clay, silt, rock salt, and carbon byproducts from sites in south Louisiana, “The Plantation Imagination” reclaims stories trapped within extracted minerals themselves.
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A Kind of Contraception / Installation of laser prints on vellum / 2020
A Clean Rag for Henry / Rock Salt, Carbon, Lighter Fluid, Mineral Spirits, Blue Pigment / 2020
A Clean Rag for Bob / Rock Salt, Carbon, Lighter Fluid, Mineral Spirits, Green Pigment / 2020
Biography of a Levee / Rock salt, sugar, crystals, blue and violet pigment, silver pigment made from honey / 2020
Plenty of Room At The Inn / Rock Salt, Carbon, Sugar Syrup and Green Pigment / 2021
Not A Hilton / Rock Salt, Carbon, Sugar Syrup and Green Pigment / 2021
Rollin' Seven and Eleven / Unfiltered cane syrup, rock salt, sugar crystals and bronze shavings / 2020–2021
Articles of Possession / Rock salt, river water, violet pigment, sugar / 2020
Geosynclines / Rock salt, sugar, blue and silver pigments, river water