M’Shinda Imani Abdullah-Broaddus
Thursday, 3 September 2020
M’Shinda Imani Abdullah-Broaddus
Work from Daddy Says.
“Daddy Says is a body of work that discusses the challenging and isolated reality of being both queer and black. The work is a byproduct of my response to the traumatic experience of coming out to both my mother and father as homosexual -an experience that queer people of color have struggled with for decades due to the imbedded homophobia within the black community. The photos are images that were taken during an intimate performance I conducted while on residency in January and February of 2019. Photographs are used as source material for collages, collages are used for source material for paintings, and both paintings and collages are used as source material for sculptures that will belong to another body of work that is currently in production.” – M’Shinda Imani Abdullah-Broaddus