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This new body of work explores the notions of absence and the search to (re)connect with the present. From drugs to suicidal ideation, the works challenge the notion of the Black monolithic experience. Like Snow Falling in Los Angeles, the narrative in these works are about the abrupt occurrence of the impossible. Clouded by bright colors and reflective surfaces, pain, heartbreak, and confusion are masked, demonstrating the length that people go to hide from others the truth of where they are in the moment.

Central to the works are caricatures of African Americans from the last century, from …