"Interweaving memory, autobiography and history, my mixed media work explores the transformative girlhood experiences that shape the women we become and illuminates the complexities of Black identity. Through amorphous, hybrid characters, I obsessively deconstruct images of the female body: legs, hands and pigtails, for instance, become characters and landscapes-a topography of my psyche. The abstract tableaux created are a fictional, coming of age narrative that represents bodies in flux and brings up complicated notions of identity, gender, sexuality and psychology.”
(Alexandria Smith)