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︎︎︎ The Reinforcements
︎︎︎ @WorkingWOC
︎︎︎ THRALL
︎︎︎ The Black Doll
︎︎︎ Namesake
︎︎︎ Inherited Patterns
︎︎︎ The Mist in Mystic
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︎︎︎ Bloodlines
︎︎︎ Trust Your Struggle

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︎︎︎ (up)rooted
︎︎︎ Dodge & Burn
︎︎︎ TOPSY TURVY
︎︎︎ Hard To Place
︎︎︎ Some Kind of War
︎︎︎ History of the World
︎︎︎ Indivisible

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The Reinforcements (2023 - Ongoing)



“Untitled (The Ideal File Clerk)”, from the Reinforcements series, 2023 Mixed Media Collage on Stonehenge Aqua Coldpress Black Paper 8 x 10” “Untitled (The Wheel of Life)”, from the Reinforcements series, 2023 Mixed Media Collage on Vintage Computer Punch Cards 7 ⅜” x 13” “Untitled (The Waiting Room)”, from the Reinforcements series, 2023 Mixed Media Collage on Stonehenge Aqua Coldpress Black Paper 8” x 10” “Untitled (Handheld Calculators)”, from the Reinforcements series, 2023 Mixed Media Collage on Stonehenge Aqua Coldpress Black Paper 8’ x 10” “Untitled (An Instinct for Order)”, from the Reinforcements series, 2023 Mixed Media Collage on Vintage Computer Punch Cards 7 ⅜” x 13” “Untitled (Unit Growth)”, from the Reinforcements series, 2023 Mixed Media Collage on Vintage Computer Punch Cards 7 ⅜” x 13”

Six finished works from my current body of collage work, the Reinforcements series were on view in The Rose, a group exhibition curated by Justine Kurland on view July 29th — October 28th, 2023 at the Lumber Room @lumberroompdx in Portland, Oregon.

These collages emerged from my larger project, @workingwoc “Towards a History of Women of Color in the Workplace”, an independent, multimedia archive that visualizes the labor history of Black and immigrant women of color in America’s workplace. I began this archive as part of my research for the 2022 Magnum Foundation Counter Historíes program and grant.

The below images are installation views of the The Rose.