Untitled/ Scrapbook

Project 3

“Untitled/ Scrapbook”, referencing the works of Deana Lawson and Arthur

Jafa (closely focusing on Arthur Jafa’s project titled Untitled

Notebook, which was a collage series; a gritty archive of black

culture, and the nuances of the black experience), this project is an

archival photography and collage series. I collected family photos from

the 80s and early 2000s and juxtaposed them with my photography pieces, and at times found images from the internet. This project seeks to

explore the language of ideas, and how to tell a story with images? How do you map histories with images (from the polaroid images by my grandma, to the contemporary images of black boys, and the found images of African photographers like Malick Sidibe)? In addition, the project was inspired by Ryan Cardoso, his works are deeply inspiring, they are explorative, raw, and playful collages of what it means to be African American- he has an understanding of black imagery. Similar to Arthur

Jafa who searches through the internet to compile black imagery, Ryan Cardoso tells archival stories with the things around him. In my archival collage series, I aimed to juxtapose scattered imagery and

make a permanent archive of blackness (2023).

Done