In my series of hardboard collages, I focus on contemporary media images. I seek to harness the essence of commercial America in an effort to generate portraits that are unique and truthful. As I sift through magazines, I manually analyze, decode, and deconstruct these photos toward a later reconstruction. My work explores both urban and rural mythologies. Creating cut paper hybrids of fact and fiction, I tear and paste paper upon paper to produce a layered cast of portraits. In the tradition of Romare Bearden and David Driskell, my work is about recollecting truth from a personal past and using collage techniques to create a cohesive thought or image. By creating a cast of self-made mythical portraits, I examine what it means to be an Afro-American in a fragmented contemporary society.

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