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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

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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

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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”!!!

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Join us for the opening reception of Spin-Out tonight, May 30th, from 6-8pm @westbethgallery. A presentation of works from the 2026 MGSA MFA cohort, curated by Lekha Jandhyala @__lekha.j . The show will be up through June 14th.

Westbeth Gallery
55 Bethune St.
New York, NY 10014
Hours: Wednesday-Sunday 1-6pm, Closed on Mondays and Tuesdays

1 Shiva Addanki @shadowcomms
2 Graham Krenz @grahamokay
3 Ana Rucker @captureyourbeing
4 Emma Berry @emmamarieberry
5 Terrell Halsey @terrellhalseyart
6 Andrew Jarman @andr_ew_jar
7 Jake Paron @georgedechirico
8 Nate Millstein @natemillstein
9 Nilo Goldfarb @nilogoldfarb
10 Jules Gårder @big.jules.xo

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𝑺𝒑𝒊𝒏-𝒐𝒖𝒕 opening reception is Saturday May 30 @westbethgallery in NY, NY. Excited to show alongside my whole cohort @rutgersmfa / @rutgersartdesign Curated by the wonderful @__lekha.j

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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.

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“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

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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

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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

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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

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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 :)

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Looking at your work really had me in awe girl! I’m so VERY proud of you. Seeing others reaction to your hard work and seeing them compliment you and flourish is so great. You are so deserving of this! My sister THE ARTIST 👩🏾‍🎨

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