The Color is Black
6 minutes
My photography, video, and installation-based work is engaged with the oppression of women and denial of identity. Many women suffer visibly and invisibly in contemporary cultures around the world, and are often subjected to profound restrictions that attempt to eliminate them as individuals by controlling their identity, freedom, movement, and expression.
My emphasis is on the color black as a visual metaphor since black suppresses and obscures the individual and indicates the absence of light. I walk on the edge of the shadow. Yet, in that moment, I cannot imagine my own freedom and selfhood where I am able to move from darkness and into the light because I am at risk. Historically, black is an extreme color that has been used as a symbol of mourning and darkness. I use both barren landscapes to represent a sense of powerlessness, as well as water as symbolic pathways to escape to freedom.
Zahra Ghasemi: Camera Assistant. Bagher Ghorbani: Producer Zia Ghiasi: Sound.
Submitted by Anahid Ghorbani
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Stephanie Dinkins is known for creating platforms for dialogue about artificial intelligence (AI) as it intersects race, gender, aging, and our future histories. She is particularly driven to work with communities of color to co-create more inclusive, fair and ethical artificial intelligent ecosystems.
African-Inspired Hand-Painted Glass Bottles.
The Habit of Healing is an ongoing project capturing moments of life, of rebirth and of hope. These images, created just before and during the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 chronicle the ongoing natural process of death, decomposition, regeneration, and growth.
This is a composition I created to reflect the year we have dealt with so far, only three months in.
Submitted by Authentic Enterprises LLC from Chicago
A stylistic view of Chicago.
Artwork that empowers the human spirit, and explores the relativity of interactions through silence and time.
This artist has exhibited at Colby Gallery (Pilsen), amongst other venues.
Ever since I can remember, I've been taught to love nature. I was encouraged to explore the land we lived on, to walk through woods and wander through meadows, to treat the earth gently and respect my fellow creatures.
Transcription references re-presentation (writing, music) as well as the biological crossing of boundaries in gene expression.
I make kites using split bamboo to construct a lattice frame and then cover the frame with cotton duck and "size" the fabric onto the frame.