LOVE BRAVELY
Selected Works, 2021 - 2023

The drawings in the Love Bravely series are a celebration of joy, an embrace of self-love, and a call to action. The inception of this work grew out of my struggle with my own identity as a Black/biracial person. This personal struggle ultimately led me to question the whiteness of my artist paper, and so in this body of work I push back against the narrative of the blank white page, and I begin by painting my paper black - actively embracing black, not white, as my foundational ground. The hearts grow from the beautiful blackness of the paper, a tangle of lines and color.  I believe in love as a powerful force of change.  Through brave love, we can find joy in our current moment, we can find courage within ourselves and one another, and we can push forward towards a more just future.

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