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Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself

Today I finally got my hands on a copy of this Charles Ray monograph published by Scalo Verlag, Zurich and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, in 1998. Christopher Mahnoski brought this book into our “Introduction to Sculpture for Non-Majors” class one afternoon, and it served as my first exposure to the work of Charles Ray. This book managed to shift my whole understanding of making work, which up until this intensive summer course had been almost entirely a “traditional” approach to making photographs. Since this class I’ve avidly researched and engaged with Ray’s work, and it was a pleasant surprise to see it on the cover of the New York Times representing their piece on the shifting practices in contemporary photography.

I wanted to make a post saying, YOUR GIRL GRADUATED FROM COLLEGE!!! These past 4 years @VCU have been an adventure but the art community I’ve gained means everything to me. I love yall and all my friends and family!~

My cap is paying homage to Naruto because that series got me through college and a good portion of my life and I really do feel like I’ve made my way to Hokage status.

FIRST BLACK FEMALE HOKAGE!