Is? She? Mommy?, kanekalon, paint, dried flowers, twine, 37cm x 89cm

Is? She? Mommy? is one of four sails I created for "Black Liberation: The Diaspora is inside of me." The materials for all of the sails are a conversation about whether "Black women are natural or unnatural?" A debate contained within whiteness. This sail is more personal than I would like. It is a space for the painful, life-affirming and complicated reality of raising my sister's daughter.