White Coat Mardi Gras, 2019-2022, Reupholstered and dissected white coat with original fabric made from digital photographs
White Mardi Gras: Racial Illiteracy, 2019, Digital Photographs
This body of work seeks to investigate the aesthetics of whiteness throughout Mobile, Alabama’s still largely segregated Mardi Gras celebration; with particular attention given to the iconography of the Joe Cain / People’s Day Parade and the historicization of the Mobile Carnival Museum. The work refutes the ways in which whiteness and white culture have previously been represented as neutral or indicative of a universal experience, when of course, it is an equally racialized existence - one of privilege, and worth complicating. This is best articulated in certain oblique vignettes where the viewer is asked to consider how white culture behaves whether through policing, performances of grandeur, or cultural appropriation.