Grace Bonneyさんのインスタグラム写真 - (Grace BonneyInstagram)「“Passage, when momma lets my braids flow down my back” 2021. Wool, synthetic braiding hair, beads, plaster, resin. Work by @nastassjaebony Avery: You are between Hampton Roads and Richmond, Virginia. How do those cities and their history inform and shape your work? How does the concept of home play a role in the narrative of your work? Nastassja: Living in a southern state, especially Virginia, one understands the heavy histories that are literally embedded in the land that we walk across. The spaces where we live, work and play. Having made work that speaks to the histories specific to Black bodies in both parts of the state, I’ve become interested in the way place and geography, and the stories tied to them, have a relationship to our bodies. The way in which we, in part, define our identity by a place- where we live, where we’re from, the grounds our ancestors graced etc. is interesting to me. And migration. How often home shifts, and why. The way we adapt due to an understanding that a part of what home is, is present within the body, thus has the ability to be carried away and planted in a new place. I think that is how the narrative of home pops up in my work, and it is how I approach picking apart the presence or idea of home in what I read or conversations I have before retelling them through my work.」2月19日 2時42分