Red and White

This body of work pertaining to both Porcelain and Brooklyn Red clay bodies stand alongside each other to reflect and create dialogue about corporal experiences of racialized bodies. Porcelain recognized as high-art material is also known to be fragile. Instead, red clay alludes to the labor, the terra cotta pots, tiles, bricks but not high-art. The hand-built vessels create this dialogue within each of their marked bodies. The inlay of each of their flesh imposed on the other was a process in which manifested as markers of violent processes. The inlay on the porcelain mimics the insensitivity of cultural appropriation and the inlay on the red clay demonstrates assimilation or internalized racism. I wanted to create a work that stood with this tension. The inner glaze of green is a sign of hope, hope to grow and to learn.