Unbecoming

Unbecoming

by Dominique Hunter

Limited Edition Digital Print, Edition of 5. Over the past seven years, my creative practice has expanded from examining asexual and hypersexual stereotypical representations of the black female body in print and television media, to exploring those portrayals alongside intersecting themes of migration and black female fragility. Images of the beach morning glory plant (a deep-rooted coastal creeping vine that is considered invasive in some regions and important to existing sea defense systems in other regions) from my own photographic archive have become central to my framing of persons who, while rooted in a very particular space, find relief and discomfort existing at the cusp of both here and there (two spaces traditionally considered in the Caribbean as polar opposites, with the latter viewed as an escape from the former). Unbecoming is part of an ongoing series titled Cusp, that has evolved to include personal strategies for coping with the anxieties that both precede as well as follow the constant uprooting and resettling of what I refer to as “mini migrations,” by exploring the value of self-care practices to an improved mental health and quality of life. The result of this evolution has allowed for an additional and often under-examined facet of the black female experience to be brought to the fore, that is, unexploited vulnerability in all of the many ways it can manifest.
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