We Spun Roses for Bread and Still They Starved, 2021, canvas, acrylic, oil pastel, photographic prints, crochet, ink, 59 in x 49 in
We Spun Roses For Bread and Still They Starved, 2021, Detail: collage of child American female textile worker and enslaved woman picking cotton
We Spun Roses For Bread and Still They Starved, 2021, detail of layered arms and gears
We Spun Roses for Bread and Still They Starved, detail of collaged photos of Egyptian and American women picking cotton with my own hands drawing, connecting un/underpaid women’s work
Inheritance, 2021, canvas, acrylic, crochet, photographic prints, 53 in x 42 in
To Escape, Draw Yourself a Tender Red Line, 2021, acrylic, crochet, paper, walnut ink, watercolor, photographic print, embroidery thread, 12.5 in x 12 in
The Entertainer, 2021, photographic prints, canvas, ink, acrylic, 19.5 in x 12.5 in
A collage combining my own image working on a mural site and cotton plants superimposed over a fictitious Orientalist illustration of a bellydancer. The British referred to Egyptian cotton as “white gold” during their colonial rule of Egypt,
The Entertainer, detail
Earth Eruption, 2021, acrylic, thread, photographic print, paper, crochet, 9 in x 12 in. Private collection.
Collage of Orientalist photo of a North African woman placed in the center of a silhouette of a European colonial soldier, in the background
Chop, 2021, watercolor, ink, photographic print, paper, pencil, 9 in x 8 in. Private collection.
We Made This White Gold, 2021, canvas, acrylic, photographic prints, ink, paper, 19.5 in x 12.5 in
The British referred to Egyptian cotton as “white gold” during their colonial rule of Egypt.