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Working with weaving, drawing, collage, and lithography, I try to work out the complexities of my emotions and Black identity. Drawing and weaving give me the opportunity to create a foundation of imagery that I can build on. Layering with different mediums allows me to reflect upon and confront certain feelings... expectations, memories of feeling inadequate, angry, sad, joyous, proud, resilient.
Artists such as Charles White, Elizabeth Catlett, Romare Bearden and Kathe Kollwitz, illustrated the beauty and strength of the human condition as well as the suffering during wars, depressions and migrations. Because my family has lived through past pain, trauma and labor, I feel lucky that my work is a labor that I have the choice and freedom to do. Doing the work sets aside time to notice repetitive feelings and respond with new modes of making. Marks, threads, multiple materials assembled together create a representation of how I feel after a stressful conversation, after a racist comment, after watching my friends walk in a Black Lives Matter demonstration, after hearing my grandmother’s voice on the phone.
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Siena SmithFace II, 2021Jacquard woven textile with cotton and wool, oil stick, pastel, watercolour and collage88.90 x 60.96 cm | 35 x 24 in.Not for sale
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Siena SmithShadow, 2021Jacquard woven textile with cotton and wool, graphite, paint marker, pastel, watercolour and collage71.12 x 60.96 cm | 28 x 24 in.Not for sale
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Siena SmithFace I, 2021Jacquard woven textile with cotton and wool, charcoal, pastel, watercolour and collage83.82 x 60.96 cm | 33 x 24 in.GBP 3,600 plus applicable taxes
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Siena SmithCovering, 2021Jacquard woven textile with cotton and wool86.36 x 60.96 cm | 34 x 24 in.Not for sale
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Siena SmithTimeline, 2019Jacquard woven textile, pastel, graphite, charcoal61 x 371 cm | 24 x 146 in.GBP 10,880 plus applicable taxes