eume, short for eumelanin was the third installment of an interactive exhibition trilogy forthe Overtown Music and Arts Festival.
eume celebrated brown and black skin tones, allowing festival-goers to draw themselves into their city's fabric.
The piece was constructed from two 6x6' hexagons and three 5' pentagons. An aerial view of the exhibition mimicked the composition of eumelanin, the specific melanin that creates brown and black skin tones.
Memory Lane
During a conversation with a close friend I told him "you grew up with a feelings chart, I was allowed two emotions in my household, joy and anger". The conversation lingered and I said it to him a few more times in varying deliveries. One day I looked a feelings chart and it mirrored a target, something I was overly familiar with. I had been shooting with my dad since around eight, was given my first pistol for my twelfth birthday. I morphed the two into one.
With targets, the bullseye is the hardest thing to hit, I took the rudimentary feelings and placed them on the perimeter and the words I feel most often towards the center of the bullseye. Words overlap the slices of pie.
To engage with Memory Lane, the shooter recalls a memory and aims at the feelings that memory evokes. The title of this work is tied the culture of shooting at a gun range. You pull the target back and forth down your assigned lane to prove your accuracy.
