Voyage (Savannah, GA, 2021) is one in an edition of five artists' books.
Artist's description: "Voyage intends to link viewers to history through type, text, and image. I want the wind sails, artist book, and poem to take viewers on a visual journey of the Middle Passage, the forced voyage of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean and to the Americas. The symbolism of the prints corresponds to lines in the poem, which I wrote while I was in graduate school. Here, you can see a family on a hazardous journey across the sea, leading to the separation of a mother and her child and the continued journey of the son away from the warmth of his mother and homeland to unwelcome shores."
Prints from this project include a QR code to SlaveVoyages.org, a digital project which makes publicly available primary materials documenting the forced relocation over 12 million people from Africa across the Atlantic, and the subsequent trafficking of hundreds of thousands across the Americas.
View an interview and page-turning video of Voyage.