The Trinity

As both participant and observer, my digital paintings and interactive videos examine the disorienting nature of the internet and the efforts of women of color to navigate states of visibility and safety. My subject's faces are obscured by latex masks, referencing anonymity and the limitations of privacy and autonomy. Digital Interfaces appear as both reminders of constant surveillance and tools for self-discovery. A range from nude figures to women dressed modestly in all white, reflects how digital spaces reduce identity to extremes. Between these societal extremes, however, lies an existence where piety and eroticism are not contradictions, but reclaimed expressions—unbound by the moral policing that typically defines them. In exploring the erotic as a site of enlightenment rather than spectacle, my work echoes Audre Lorde’s words in Uses of the Erotic: “Pornography is a direct denial of the power of the erotic, for it represents the suppression of true feeling.”