Nia Celeste's portfolio

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Things I Cannot Accept

Things I Cannot Accept investigates the relationship between systems of oppression and the duality of history.
Exploration II - Appropriation

Exploration II - Appropriation is a multilayered screen print utilizing a collection of appropriated screen printing films archived from community.
Angst

Angst is a risograph print of an original self-portrait to express the disjunction of angst.
Numb

Numb is an unaltered digital photo exploring the unconscious disconnect with self authorized by our choices to numb rather than feel - all of life.

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About Nia

Baltimore-native, Nia Celeste, is an interdisciplinary community and collage artist whose practice bridges photography, creative writing, film, and abstraction through an intuitive and layered approach. She creates to learn, to heal, to self-reflect and ponder and uses mediums as tools of introspection to investigate selfhood, faith, and the human experience. Guided by intuitive inquiry, mood, and process, Celeste's work explores life as a process of constant grief and evolution with… more

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I Am Vulnerable

I Am Vulnerable works to foster discussion on the duality of vulnerability and power in the juxtaposition of the Black woman in American society.

“African-American women have been victimized by race, gender, and class oppression. But portraying Black women solely as passive, unfortunate recipients of racial and sexual abuse stifles notions that Black women can actively work to change our circumstances and bring about changes in our lives. Similarly, presenting African-American women solely as heroic figures who easily engage in resisting oppression on all fronts minimizes the very real costs of oppression and can foster the perception that Black women need to help because we can ‘take it.’”

— Patricia Hill Collins in Black Feminist Thought, 1990