A Written Testimony (2021)

“How many more funerals must I attend of pieces of myself that have died? How many times will I mourn versions of myself that cannot live on? I often feel very past my years, simply experiencing this life as one of the many that I have lived. But today, I feel young, embarrassingly so… I'm at the crossroads in my life where I know what I have to do but I'll never be the same again. If I let my cowardice win, I'll never forgive myself.”

 

I've found myself in words that I previously found lacking, 

 

Needing to show the faces of people I could never be, that I had to let go, I made “Cowardice”. Creating work about my Blackness was always easy as it was never something I could hide from. A Written Testimony is the first work about my queerness and as someone who loves. These images are a written testimony to myself and who I love.