Yangy Visuals

Self-portrait in my home studio. Won this battle with the self-timer!

📸 Yashica Mat 124 G + Portra 800 🎞️

Used a single continuous strobe as the light source💡

So grateful for the opportunity to participate in the Lenora Rolla Juried Art Show this year! Thank you to and the judges for selecting “Buffalo Soldiers” as the Best of Show, Runner up! 🤩

I had the invaluable experience of spending time with and documenting the Buffalo Soldiers and Buffalo Soldiers Motorcycle Club-Dallas in 2021. Both organizations are committed to serving the community through volunteering and supporting youth through education and financial support.

***If you see me in that Missy Elliot tee again, mind ya business! 😅🙈

Installation view of Constellations: Racial myths, land, and labour, curated by Su-Ying Lee, 2024. Esker Foundation, Calgary.

📸 by Blaine Campbell (images 2-5)

Forever grateful to have taken part ✨

Our paths in life are shaped by a multitude of factors, each as unique as the individuals who experience them. The choices we make, the challenges we face, and the perspectives we hold all contribute to the distinctiveness of our individual paths.

I’ve been having a lot of fun with self-portraiture. It was challenging to build the airplane, but fulfilling once complete! Guess how long it took?? 😅

More to come from this series, including BTS.
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2024
Archival Print on Hahnemühle Baryta
Edition of 3
12x18

Available for acquisition! Contact me.

Labor Day show with !

This was such a great show and I am so grateful to have been among the participating artists!
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Our Rice lightbox installations are now live until June 3, 2024, across University of Toronto, Mississauga campus!

Our Rice is the first in the three-cycle exhibition called
Overseeding: Botany, Cultural Knowledge and Attribution and is meant to uncover contributions that radicalized people have made to botanical knowledge, previously obscured by European colonialism.

It’s so surreal to see this work being illuminated at this scale and I’m forever grateful.

Visit the link in bio for a write-up on the show and images. Thank you to all who had a hand in bringing it to life!

📸 Toni Hafkenscheid
✨Curated by .lee
🔆Presented by:

***Reposting since I’ve seen this many places with credit.

Rice, seeds, and grains were braided into the hair of the enslaved that would later serve as sustenance. The hairstyle—cornrows—hid rice and even seeds as they traveled with no belongings through the Middle Passage. During slave rebellions, this technique was revisited by women of the Maroons of Suriname to ensure that they would have food to grow when they escaped to the rainforest. These images were created to help visualize this piece of history.

Since creating the initial images in 2020, I’ve expanded the body of work to include images of the cornrow maps and “corn” to visualize other communication and survival techniques that were implemented by the enslaved.

Image 1: Untitled (from Our Rice), 2020
16x19 inches on Archival Photo Rag, Edition of 1

Image 2: Untitled (from Our Rice), 2020
13x19 inches on Archival Photo Rag, Edition of 1

Image 3: Nourish, 2022
20x30 inches on Archival Photo Rag, Edition of 1

Image 4: Branches of Life, 2022
32.5x45.5 inches on Archival UV Pigmented Print on Rolled Hem Brocade and Chiffon, Edition of 1

Image 5: The Human Maze, 2022
20x20 inches on Archival UV Pigmented Acrylic Print, Edition of 1

Image 6: Inter-, 2022
20x20 inches on Archival UV Pigmented Acrylic Print, Edition of 1

Image 7: Vantage Point, 2022
20x20 inches on Archival UV Pigmented Acrylic Print, Edition of 1

Image 8: Not A Game, 2023
20x20 inches on Archival UV Pigmented Acrylic Print, Edition of 1

Join us in conversation next week to discuss EDIA Equity!

You don’t want to miss this! Stop by before November 26.