Kamari Bright

A girl's baking lesson from her grandfather teaches her acceptance as she learns the similarities between ingredients and people.

A girl's baking lesson from her grandfather teaches her acceptance as she learns the similarities between ingredients and people.

A girl's baking lesson from her grandfather teaches her acceptance as she learns the similarities between ingredients and people.

In light of a public health crisis that encouraged isolation and distance, Close Spaces utilizes African American vernacular English (AAVE) to highlight and exalt the intimate and confined spaces that drive the genuine, everyday connections that are necessary for humanity.

Inspired by the trans-Atlantic slave trade and other large-scale traumatic events, this project uses the love-lost trope to examine how collective trauma impacts our connection to the land.