her shade is women

Title: Her Shade Is Women

Year: 2020

Style: Mixed Media

Medium: linocut on Fabriano (Print)

62cm X 43cm X 2cm

Weight: 0.049

My body of work, 'SABOTEUR' revolves around the themes of feminism and identity. It looks at the misconceptions of beauty about black women and how that puts them/has put them in a predicament. In my work I show   how black women have evolved throughout the years by raising 21st centuries' controversies around black women bleaching their skin, replacing their natural hair with synthetic hair and modifying their bodies to fit certain beauty standards laid out by society.
The work is inspired by my career journey in modeling and a song by Nina Simone called "Four Women", which speaks about black women who had issues with the way their hair, body and complexion was... This made me realize that we have been brainwashed for so many years by social media, modeling agencies, western cultures and men into feeling this way about ourselves so with this body of work I seek to empower women from all walks of life who have felt degraded or dismissed by social media