BLK VAN GOGH

Jada S Haynes Portfolio

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consumed

Silently Violent
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After discovering an archived letter from their ancestor Birdtee about life as a Black woman born in Lookeba Oklahoma in 1914, Haynes created consumed. They reflect on the things that carried forward; independence instilled in the Haynes’ womxn and their consequential but fairly unrecognized successes. They mourned over the things lost; the lack of archiving leaving the spoken and quilted ideas of their history and the raw edges of what makes Haynes unenclosed. Consumed maps their journey back to the Bay Area accompanied by emotional distress and uncomfortable senses of impermanence that felt like echoes of feelings beyond their own.

Consumed is on display at Root Division for Now Ain't Some Day Yet  from June 7th to June 28th 2023.

Silently Violent

Silently Violent

Silently Violent

Is there peace in limbo? Are there sacrifices in air? What’s security in suspension? When do we plummet, filled to capacity?

In Capacities of Suspension , I traverse the realm of limbo where friction finds its place in the equilibrium of the in-between. This intangible dance becomes a metaphor for black queer existence/survival, a teetering between an intergenerational archive of extinguished personhood and an earnest attempt to forge an entirely new sense of self. Through the embodiment of fiber consumed pieces and vessels, each suspended in varying states of tension, I contemplate the transient nature of grief, security, and desire. These pieces serve as a conduit for describing the indescribable- an attempt to recall the arduous assessments one makes in the face of their own evolution.