The Right To Opacity

To assert ones right to opacity is to refuse to be known solely on the terms of the colonizer and for the colonizers benefit. A medium to resist the light of Western understanding in order to preserve diversity and advance exchanges based upon hierarchy but upon networks that abolish the primacy of any one centre of understanding.

This series focusses on the gaze, initially by confronting the viewer with the black experience through my lens. By presenting the inverted images altered to obscure naturalistic skin tones and interrupting an easy or preconditioned reading of the subject along ethnic lines. Therefore, the gaze could be interpreted as roaming, touching everything denied representation. Reinforcing the idea of transformation and the ambiguity of the narrative.