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Poet Nikky Finney refers to repetition as holiness.
If the subject is repeated are they now sacred?
What does mean to make a person holy or sacred?
Who were/are these people?
Do they know they’re sacred?
Do they feel it?

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“Motherhood is old age”, 2026 (after Toni Morrison the Bluest Eye)

Black boy lullaby, 2026

Endless memory, 2026 by @captureyourbeing

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Playing around with investigating the speculative fictions present in second hand photographs.

Who are these people? What stories do they hold? How were their memories lost?

Early iterations of a project reimagine the lives of lost images.

1. I’ll fly Away, 2026

Eyes of the tiger, 2026

Beauty Queen, 2026.

Black boy, Black boy, what do you see?, 2026

Animal crackers, 2026

Picture Day, 2026

I get it from my mama, 2026 by @captureyourbeing

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Had the pleasure of shooting the cover images for my lovely and talented friend @hrlum who just released her single “park frequencies”!!! by @captureyourbeing

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OH YOU WANNA TALK ABOUT MOTHERRSSSSSS - but fr so grateful for the many mothers in my life. Love y’all more than I could begin to express. Some old photos from thanksgiving a few years back. I never shared them, enjoy 🫶🏿 feeling blessed and full of love

Here’s to all the mamas on earth and beyond, the word would stop spinning without you. Sending hug to everyone with and without mothers today and everyday. by @captureyourbeing

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5 months ago

“bless me for not seeing my beauty”
2026
20” x 227”
ceramic, synthetic Hair

Another piece from Instead of Dust at @nuisancegallery with @chase.irvin.art

Named this piece from a line of one of my favorite poems “The Tao of the Black Plastic Comb“ by the my poetry mama, the incredible @glenismakingpoetryreign

📷: @bamblerdander by @captureyourbeing

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Is your hair still political?
2026
40” x 74”
chain link, steel, plastic hair bows, synthetic hair

Shown @nuisancegallery alongside @chase.irvin.art

📷: @bamblerdander by @captureyourbeing

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In Black spaces community and loving comes in many forms. One of my favorite moments growing up was the ritualistic practice of getting my hair tended to. Hair functions as a vital part of Black expression. It holds cultural, historical, and spiritual meaning across the black atlantic and the diaspora. My inquiry into the role that hair plays deepened after I shaved my head out of necessity. This experience disrupted my sense of self. What I once thought was essential to my self-image became separate and began to take on a new form. In response to this new form, I contemplate transformation, loss, and continuity by using sculpture to see the body as an evolving archive.
My recent body of work, Blue Magic, focuses on hair as both material and metaphor. The sculptural forms in this series draw from the aesthetics of West African masquerade traditions, using the form as a way to embody, conceal, and transform identity. These works act as devotional figures that explore the importance of hair within Black culture and the systems that shape its perception.

I blinked and it went! Feeling so many emotions looking through these photos (by the talented @bamblerdander). Pouring so much into my work has unlocked something that I fear can never be contained again. Grateful to be where I am and I can’t wait to see the future, because we’re just at the beginning!!

MFA THESIS DONE!

First photo: Ed Murray

#mfa #thesis #blackhair by @captureyourbeing

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8 months ago

Kanekalon Duafe.

Blue Magic (be who you are, 2026).

Scored by @hrlum

Full video @ AnaRucker.com

Linked in my bio :)

The snow has been cleared and you still have a chance to see my thesis work until 2/5 at Mason Gross Galleries.

#mfa #thesis by @captureyourbeing

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9 months ago

CHÉBÉ - snippet of what you can see until February 5th. Didn’t @hrlum eat down on the music???

Also go to my website to see the video for my folks back home :) by @captureyourbeing

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“Blue Magic” - Opia ma thesis show

on view
january 20-febuary 5, 2026
reception —— thursday, january 22 6-9pm
mason gross galleries
33 livingston ave
new brunswick, nj
free & open to the public wheelchair accesible

1 hour from manhattan and Philly (for my PA NYC folks)

That last slide better be y’all on the way to the show :) & shoutout @hrlum for setting the vibe with your musical talents sneak peaks in the midst of the process; come see the final product!

#mfa by @captureyourbeing

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Blue Magic.

Opia - MFA Thesis Show 1

33 Livingston Ave, New Brunswick NJ

Jan 20th - February 5th, 2026

Opening reception January 22nd 2026, 6-9pm

Free and open to the public 1 hour train ride from Manhattan (NYC friends) come see what I’ve been up to the last couple of months in person :)

Put it in ya calendar. I’ll also remind ya don’t worry 😌 by @captureyourbeing

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10 months ago

Lump in My Throat, 2025.

4 minutes 34 seconds.

There is and will be more seductive, mutant language designed to throttle women, to pack their throats like paté-producing geese with their own unsayable, transgressive words; there will be more of the language of surveillance disguised as research.

Toni Morrison, Nobel Lecture December 7, 1993

An excerpt of a video using by the words of Toni Morrison to unpack the ugly norms we are forced to accept and then regurgitate.

“In Your Hands” ( @dueyart ) in SHOW TOWN open now @iceboxprojectspace until the 25th! Come celebrate this Friday the November 25, 2025 6pm - 8pm.

LINK IN BIO to view the full piece on my website/youtube. Trigger warning, a bit gross but in the Word of Toni Morrison; language is transformative, violent and ugly. by @captureyourbeing

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