To Grandama: A Roadtrip

Road Trip: An Artist's Dinner was an artist talk and public soul food dinner between artist, Animah Danquah and I, hosted at a recreation of my grandmother’s kitchen table, as part of Moore College of Art & Design's 2021 MFA Thesis Show. We discussed themes of Black femme cooking phenomenology, migration, and ancestry as explored through my Google Maps road trip from Chicago to Mississippi, inspired by my great grandmother’s travels during the Great Migration. The installation included ​the kitchen table recreation, covered with vintage Black figurines, which my great-grandmother collected; wooden West African wall sculptures, like the ones that cover my grandmother's  walls, a projection of an experimental video piece that uses Google Maps to take the the viewer on a road trip to my great grandmother’s hometown of Sunflower County, Mississippi from my grandmother’s home in Chicago, Illinois. This road trip is interplayed with a note to my great-grandmother, Stevie Wonder's "I Am Singing" providing the soundtrack, and footage of me making my great-grandmother’s sweet potato pie. The video can be viewed below: 

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