Picture Day (2024)
13.5" x 27"
(metal stool, bond paper, matte gel medium)
This stool features an image transfer of myself, taken on picture day in kindergarten ('93). I deliberately chose this picture to transfer because I wanted my brown skin to seamlessly merge with the stool's fiberboard material. I’ve observed multiple people either place a box, coat, or accidentally sit on the stool, without noticing the image of my face. In my childhood, I harbored a desire to become invisible, not out of embarrassment or shyness, but out of mischievous curiosity to observe unnoticed–as an adult, I involuntarily became invisible in a different way. My brown skin, a color often overlooked or erased in mainstream representation, made it easy for my face to fade into obscurity.