American artist known for her monumental silhouettes exploring American slavery and racial trauma through cut black paper.
A silhouette is both erasure and spectacle. Black paper is my paint for pain and beauty
Art doesn't have to be comfort. It can be challenge, it can be pain, but that is truth
When I started, no one wanted to see what I was doing. But I believed this story had to be told
My work speaks for people whose voices were erased from history. I give them a place to be seen
The dark side of imagination is precisely where creativity happens. We must go there
Silhouettes don't need words. They speak to what words cannot express
The worst that can happen is rejection. But rejection is part of the process, and I have learned to accept it