UNDERLINE
​2017 - 2021

Underline explores my biracial/Black identity through the introspective creation of​ blind-contour self-portraits; a drawing process that asks me to​ ​engage fully with my own visual form, and translate that form into line while not​ ​looking at what I am creating or lifting my mark from the page. As a biracial person​ ​how I am seen shifts in the eye of the beholder and depends on social context.  Through these explorations I contemplate my own visual form while relinquishing the​ ​ability to control how I look. I embrace a process of discovery that asks me to truly​ ​see myself, and asks the viewer to find me within, and beneath, the wandering lines.  These ​drawings began in black and white, but gradually shifted towards​ ​multicolored expressions of self. Through this process I have discovered that none of​ ​us are just one thing- we are all multicolored beings beneath the surface.

These works are 22" x 22" each and are crayon and black gesso on paper, and crayon on paper.​