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3 Lessons from A Decade of Creative Practice

On trusting your spirit, power and divinity

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Ayana Zaire Cotton
Sep 25, 2023
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An upclose shot of overlapping pieces of scrap cow hide painted with colorful acrylics and screenprinted with bitmapped found images of black women being social in the 60s suspended in mid air using hand sewn washers and cotton twine.
To biology and beyond… (2023) is a painting I made for the Visual Arts Center of Richmond Time Machines exhibition. While a resident at VisArts I continued my research on black feminist entanglement within biotechnology (started at Ginkgo Bioworks) and established a new research practice around the metaphysical potential of abstraction and color while tuning into the poetics of bitmapping. Image description: An upclose shot of overlapping pieces of scrap cow hide painted with colorful acrylics and screenprinted with glittering bitmapped found images of black women being social in the 60s suspended in mid air using hand sewn zinc washers and cotton cooking twine. Photo: David Hale

I could start with the books I wrote in elementary school that my dad helped me illustrate and bin…

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