I used past work and incorporated it with silver custom nameplates that together references a past and gestures towards a future that also engages the imagination.Soul Out The Blocks, 2017 is an exploration of constructed space, an embodiment, and nod towards the late cultural icon Florence Griffith Joyner at the Seoul Olympics ... one of the most pivotal moments in sports history. I wanted to bring the element of the found object into the design the way I usually do with my work. I thought it was important to have the question I’m asking us all to think about, relate to the practice of naming. The nameplate culturally and historically is a declaration alone by itself. its own Declaration of Independence. Personally, and politically. It’s a rite of passage where in which whoever partakes in this practice asserts their right to themselves and their right to choose their own path or future, how they will show up in the world. Present themselves and almost establishing or setting barometers for how the world will engage with them. The nameplate isn’t just a piece of jewelry its communicational tool a way to name oneself on your own terms.
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We are reaching a point of pivotal change and possible transformation.
In terms of naming ....
How do we choose to name our future? Or the imagined spaces we create transform
move through and inhabit?..... The practices we invent. The environments we
construct.
How do we choose to name the present moment for the future? How do we choose to
even envision what’s in front of us? And the iterations that have us pause to think and
reflect? (In aiming forward).
How can we construct new worlds?
How do we continue on?
How will we move to 2 infinity n Beyond?

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