American Weeds Growing through Docile Garden

American Weeds Growing through Docile Garden 

Each flattened figure contorts the figure to visualize the discomfort black femmes are expected to put themselves in so that those around them can feel comfortable. The skin is made up of flower producing weed plants found in the south east that have medicinal or edible uses to represent how Black femmes in America live at the intersection of having others desire your physical, mental, and emotional labor but not finding them of value. The control, containment, and killing of weeds and black femmes are deemed normal; and even encouraged. Both are defined for what they can or can not provide to others and anything outside of those external constraints are erased, ignored, or deemed a problem.