Is Dominican Blackness behind the ear?

Dominica Rum Bottle

 

Smack Mellon 20–21

This series of ceramics was created during my art residency at Smack Mellon 2020–2021.
This collection revisits the project “The Black Behind the Ear” under the question, “Is Dominican Blackness behind the ear?”

Project Presented during Miami Art Week 2021 at Homework Gallery.

 
 
 
 
When one knows the tremendous strength of their roots, and the arid fraternity among them, their conventional exotic image fades away.
— Édouard Glissant