Sights/Sites is an ongoing series of handmade mixed media collages that looks at the female body (particularly the black, female body) as a once-colonized mass of land, still fighting against the impositions of multiple forms of intersecting oppressions.

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By culling information from various archives and feminist texts (often with alternating and overlapping perspectives from both sides of the oppressor/oppressed binary), I have been exploring different ways of engaging with ideas of colonial and contemporary representations of black and white female bodies, and the cyclical perpetuation of very specific relationships and body ideals over the centuries.

 

The physical manifestation of those concerns underscores issues of sexuality, commodification, exploitation, and (non) representation in art historical and contemporary texts and imageries. My point of entry into these themes has been to employ and exaggerate popular advertising techniques used in magazines in an attempt to critique the manner in which the female body continues to be idealized and “sold” (to men for consumption, and to women for validation). Ideas of beauty regarding the female body are therefore examined from the perspective of the media, which now assumes a position once held by the white male colonizer.

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