What the Mirror Said
What the Mirror Said is an intimate cartography of becoming—a visual exploration of identity where memory assembles itself like a living collage. Here, fragments do not merely coexist; they breathe, dissolve, and reconstruct themselves, mirroring the fluid nature of self-understanding. In contemplating the mirror's message as a daily embodiment practice, I inserted my own likeness into some of the work for the first time.
Water moves through these works as both medium and metaphor—eroding boundaries, revealing hidden landscapes of experience. Each piece becomes a threshold, a portal where past and present exchange whispers, where the inner child speaks in layers of color and texture.
Guided by the ancestral wisdom of Black authors—Lucille Clifton, bell hooks, Alice Walker, Ntozake Shange, Audre Lorde, Natasha Trethewey, and James Baldwin—these visual poems pulse with a quiet, revolutionary tenderness. They have no interest in resolution but simply seek to witness: to hold space for complexity, for the sacred act of becoming.
Echoing Lucille Clifton's profound words:
i continue to continue
where i have been
most of my lives is
where I’m going
These works are an affirmation—looking before, looking beneath, ever-transforming, carrying on . . .
Photographs of the installation compliments of Reynolds Gallery