It’s Eating Way (2025)

Scanograph, Ink on printer scanner, Wild Flowers

21 x15 Inches

In Its Eating Way, the interplay of scanography, ink, and wildflowers becomes a meditation on consumption, loss, and transformation. Organic matter is captured in its ephemeral state, highlighting the cycles of decay and renewal that mirror both personal and collective histories. The title references both literal and metaphorical consumption, reflecting societal pressures on Black women to absorb trauma, labor, and expectation while simultaneously being devoured by external systems of erasure. The layered textures of ink and botanical material evoke memory as living, tangible matter, suggesting that even in the act of being consumed, resilience and beauty persist. By foregrounding natural materials and immediate processes, the work underscores the interconnectedness of human experience, ecological cycles, and cultural inheritance. It interrogates the tension between vulnerability and agency, creating a space where Black life and creativity resist consumption while asserting autonomy over the narratives imposed upon it. It’s Eating Way is at once an elegy, a warning, and a celebration of endurance, asserting the presence and complexity of Black womanhood in the face of systemic pressures.