A.Y. Johnson

Acclimatisation

Video
2022
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Design based video work

“A series of sketches done over a set of postcards. The original designs were produced in a postcard coloring collection designed by William Morris (a British textile designer who lived in the 1800’s), as I was covering up the original designs, I thought about the irony of finding this postcard collection in Nassau Morris was known to be a major contributor to the revival of traditional British textile arts and methods of production. And so, as it follows, my artistic response in the act of covering them with my own designs acts like a sort of reclamation of the natural land that was wrongfully claimed and ties into the resilience of the natural world to always recuperate.”

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2022, Decolonizing Art from the Turtle Islands to the Islands of the Bahamas
Ada Slight Gallery

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A.Y. Johnson

Interdisciplinary

“I aim forefront the dialougue on afro-centric queries, the ideas of beauty and strength, the contradictions of female cultural identity, and by extension colonialism, race, spirituality and more.”