ISE
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“I am a Jamaican American artist of Chinese, European, Sephardic Jewish and West African ancestry. Coming from a transnational background, brought up between Tokyo, Jamaica, Chicago, and New York, my work begins with a question of self. Who am I, where do I belong?
With an education in environmental sciences and a fervour for creation stories, communion with natural environments, and spiritual contemplation I have formed a sense of identity and belonging to everywhere, to myself, to Earth, and to the Universe. Through this emulsified sense of being, my work captures the cycles of destruction and creation, blurring the distinctions between form and formless.”
The works take influence from traditions of Kriya Yoga, Chinese landscape painting, and post-war Japanese art movements. Each are created using organic pigments and materials (charcoaled bone and fruit seeds, chalk, and raw linen). They are bound using Lasuax’s water resoluble medium, which includes readily biodegradable synthetic polymers.
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Unspeakable World
Untitled 6, 2024, Chalk, bone, fruit seed, acrylic binder, and ink on linen, 120 x 200 cm
Untitled 7, 2024, Chalk, bone, fruit seed, acrylic binder, and ink on linen, 120 x 200 cm
Untitled 5, 2024, Chalk, bone, fruit seed, acrylic binder, and ink on linen, 120 x 200 cm
Untitled 5 and 7, Installation Image
Detail
Detail
Detail
Untitled 0, 2024, Fruit seed, lapis lazuli, azurite, and water soluble medium on linen, 50.8 x 76.2 cm
Untitled 3, 2024, Chalk, bone, fruit seed, and ink on linen, 60 x 40 cm
Untitled 2 2024, Chalk, bone, fruit seed, and ink on linen, 60 x 40 cm
Untitled 4, 2024, Chalk, bone, acrylic binder, and ink on linen, 60 x 40 cm
Untitled 1, 2024, Chalk and bone on linen, 80 x 60 cm
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Aya, 2024, Ballpoint Pen, Acrylic, Cotton, 100 x 30 cm.
Wound, 2021, Acrylic, Japanese paper, and seed on canvas, 40 x 40 in.