Medium specificity materializes the emotions tied to memories and speaks to the material culture of the Southern United States. I utilize these fibrous materials as a means of turning the every day into the supernatural and as forms of Black resistance.
The Broom Power object series is as much a material study of Southern visual culture as much as utilizes Southern conjure beliefs to create powerful art objects. Each object uses the traditional tension-based means of broom-making to create objects that are not designed for sweeping but purely to protect, harm, heal, and yield power in various other ways.