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This is a spinner. It’s a lawn ornament that you would actually find in your backyard. The material is metal. So it’s a hard material. It feels a very cold when you touch it. But it’s metal that has been treated where it has a rainbow sort of effect to it. So it’s shiny. And then they are cut in a way that you can pull them apart where they become more dimensional.
A Tondo is me looking at these brain scans of inner-city youth that live in extreme violent zones, and the trauma that comes from that, and pairing that with extreme weather patterns—colliding these two forces together. And it’s round, so I’m thinking more from a universal sort of perspective that this is the world.
But it was really that twig, sort of this discarded object, really became this way of adorning and embellishing my sort of body, in terms of—in building this sort of protective sort of shield around it. And so that became this sort of beginning of this new way of sort of thinking about building work. I think for the most part, most of my work is always is built from, really, one sort of small sort of object that is multiplied by thousands.
The hustle coat is really a trench coat, which is made out of cotton. It’s double breasted. It has a belt. But inside of the coat it also has a lining. And this lining is covered in jewels. Just imagine—necklaces, chains, watches, jewelry, stones, are all sewn by hand into this lining of the coat, making it appear to be this jewel box.
And so that to me was like magic. But also, the hustle code is really sort of talking about class and excess and surplus, and thinking about, as an artist, getting your hustle on, and what that demands, what that looks like, what that means. And it’s also about commerce and selling and this sort of consumption of consumerism, in a sense.I was interested in collecting as many carved wooden heads of Black people that I could find. And so that’s what I did.
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