Carla Jay Harris
Bitter Earth, 2021
Installation
Courtesy the artist

“Bitter Earth is a collaborative project. I think that’s a key piece of information. Because that’s how the project started - with myself and Brenda Stevenson, who’s my aunt. She’s also an historian and an educator. We’ve been wanting for a while to come together on a project because there’s just so much overlap between what she studies and what I am interested in. I often deal with works that have to do with memory, ancestral memory, as well as Black experience and her work is very much about the experience of Black women as well. Bitter Earth is the genesis of her world and my world coming together.”

Carla Jay Harris in conversation with Alisha Kerlin and D.K. Sole, August 4, 2021