Geolocation: #Gratitude (2016)

Geolocation: #Gratitude On October 7th, 2011, the blogger and now United Russia Party member Vladimir Burmatov posted a rhyming couplet on Twitter - “Moscow is warm and sunny. Summer! #ThanksToPutinForThat” (VMoskve teplo i solntse. Leto! #spasiboputinuzaeto) - and encouraged others to follow with their own tweets using the hashtag. The invitation was accepted with more than 10,000 tweets that day alone and it became the first globally trending Cyrillic hashtag.

Geolocation: #Gratitude (2017)

Geolocation: #Gratitude On October 7th, 2011, the blogger and now United Russia Party member Vladimir Burmatov posted a rhyming couplet on Twitter - “Moscow is warm and sunny. Summer! #ThanksToPutinForThat” (VMoskve teplo i solntse. Leto! #spasiboputinuzaeto) - and encouraged others to follow with their own tweets using the hashtag. The invitation was accepted with more than 10,000 tweets that day alone and it became the first globally trending Cyrillic hashtag.

Art at Work (2015)

In July 2015, I worked in collaboration with Jubilee Arts and the Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts to make portraits of Baltimore City youth employed in the Art @ Work summer mural program. Jubilee Arts is a non-profit that provides arts classes and other services to the residents of the Sandtown-Winchester, Upton, and surrounding neighborhoods that were at the epicenter of the recent unrest. The Art @ Work teams were guided by mentor artists and community input to create a series of murals in the Sandtown-Winchester neighborhood.

Jubilee Arts (2015 - 2016)

For the last year and a half, I have worked in collaboration with Jubilee Arts to make portraits of Baltimore City youth engaged in their programming. Jubilee Arts is a non-profit that provides arts classes and other services to the residents of the Sandtown-Winchester, Upton, and surrounding neighborhoods that were at the epicenter of the recent unrest. The portraits come out of conversations, sometimes quickly and sometimes slowly, sometimes planned and sometimes spontaneous.

SOCIAL ISSUES-DOMESTIC VIOLENCE 1997-2016

In the late 1990s I worked on several Projects with victims of domestic abuse in the UK and the USA. 
Some of the Projects included working with women in the States of Nevada and Idaho. I also worked on the Comfort Women series and  
 the Japanese Government has only recently apologized for the outrages acts committed towards  women. (Korea,China)
 I lived  in London(2002-2014-3)and worked on several projects with victims of domestic abuse. Included is a work "Dress of Sorrows"

Pucky's Pappagallo

Pucky's Pappagallo is a short documentary/personal essay about my grandmother's hair, and the impact it had on both her and our family.

Screenings:
Baltimore Museum of Art’s “Finding Home” exhibition, Filmidio 2017, Light City 'On Demand' Showcase, Loophole Berlin

People and the Places they Pride (Baltimore Series)

 3/27/14

Dear Monique,
  
Last week was Open Studio here at my flat.  Right before I was about to pack everything up and shut my doors, a man walked in and introduced himself as Ron.  It’s funny how certain situations assure you that you're leading a life worth living.
 
Ron's son died in a plane crash six or seven years ago. His name was also Ron.  Ron Jr. had gotten his pilot license and was flying a Cessna over the Rockies when the plane went down .
 

On "Working"

I crafted a version of flânerie by observing and documenting professionalism, labor, leisure, and idleness and by rooting these themes in my identity as an artist.

Pieces of Jonestown

The video is of the empty field in Guyana that used to be Jonestown, where the Peoples Temple massacre occurred in 1978, as well as the surrounding towns and villages. The audio is composed of selections from interviews conducted nearby with local residents Wilfred Jupiter and Carlton Daniels in June, 2010.

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