surfacing: a (loose) manual on stuffmaking / unlayering & hypervisibility (2023)
this is a (loose) manual on a method I like to refer to as surfacing. a method that synthesizes narrative through the use of surfaces such as textiles, paper, web & video to reveal the spectacularly ordinary parts of Black life within a growing design practice. a method I (currently) practice in three (evolving) steps:
unlayering and piecing together stuff (rememory).
acknowledgment of ancestry through stuff-making (kin). consciousness of oneself and the place / time / space in which the work is being disseminated (hypervisibility). this is a manual that profiles a (current) design practice of a Black female maker in 2023 (me! lol). a Black female maker that continues to amalgamate, respond-to and learn-from.
one who recognizes that they are still growing — that their views expressed in this text will shift, evolve or change with time.
(500+ page) thesis book written in completion of my mfa at the rhode island school of design. available for purchase via:
www.surfacing.lol
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