2025 Sondheim Art Prize Finalist Exhibition
Installation Photography, Walters Art Museum
This exhibition of works centers around "what's on your heart?" (2025), a hand-dyed cotton loc installation created on-site as a responsive, living centerpiece. The colors emerge in direct conversation with the surrounding artworks, creating an intentional dialogue between the pieces. During a year marked by political tension and injustice, this installation serves as a resting place—a space to hold everything I'm carrying while surrounded by the works that represent what I value most deeply: caring for my relationship with myself, my family, my ancestors, and my community. The installation embodies the sacred ritual my practice has become: creating spaces where we can slow down, reflect, and find grounding amidst challenge. As visitors encounter the exhibition, they're invited into the same question that transformed my own understanding of community care: "what's on your heart?" The installation holds space for that inquiry, just as true community holds space for us to emerge and heal at our own pace.
Works displayed: what’s on your heart, choosing nourishment evolving patience, patience, 1972 stevie wonder, 1975 chaka khan, 1982 the five stairsteps, Bloom: grounding emerald, and blue: ancestral healing.
