Self Portrait, 61" x 34,” Organic cotton rope, metal hoops.

Self Portrait is a reaction to not feeling at home in my own home (country). In an attempt to transmute my outsider status I looked to the spider. A fearsome, magical creature that can create its home anywhere. I made my own home/reflection. Cotton a cash crop, my ancestors a cash crop. Lynching rope. American wealth as rope. Unraveled and reshaped into my image.

Photo by Jeffry Scott