in the in in
this work is an unflinching meditation on the black body as a vessel of pain, resilience, and survival. with a dremel tool and a precision blade, i carved into these photographs, creating scars that speak to the silent histories we carry. the marks are deliberate—symbols, holes, and fragments of text that reveal the unspoken truths of what it means to endure.
black skin is both a shield and a target, bearing the weight of centuries yet refusing to crumble. each line etched into these images mimics the wounds that life leaves behind, but also the healing that follows. it is a paradox—how blackness can hold so much hurt and still radiate strength, how it can be scarred and yet remain unbroken.
and thank god, we don’t look like what we’ve been through.
there’s a quiet power in these works, a reminder that survival is not just about enduring but about transforming. to live is to scar, and to scar is to remember. yet, in spite of it all, we are more than what we’ve been through. we are beauty forged in pain, stories written in flesh, and monuments to our own perseverance.
in the in in is my way of speaking through the silence, of honoring the scars that shape us and the courage it takes to keep going. it is not just a statement—it is a reckoning, a reclamation, and an offering.