Bloodstone + Home
Bloodstone + Home is a multimedia archive documenting my life and family history. This meditation on home, belonging, interiority, strength, nurturing and growth unfolds across seven chapters. It reflects the fluidity of time, considering how beliefs, behaviors, and values become heirlooms that pass from one generation to the next and how this inheritance is visible in physical landscapes, cultural environments, and in the mythologies we hold onto.
Although early iterations of this project will be showcased in an exhibition, the final form of this work will be an artist book which serves as the key to unlock a collection of video, audio recordings and interactive elements.
Bloodstone + Home installation view. photo credit: Sindayiganza Photography
Bloodstone + Home installation view. photo credit: Sindayiganza Photography
Bloodstone + Home installation view. photo credit: Sindayiganza Photography
Accounting, Accounted for, Accountability (detail), 2024-2025. photo credit: Sindayiganza Photography
Accounting, Accounted for, Accountability (detail), 2024-2025, ink on paper.
Accounting, Accounted for, Accountability (detail), 2024-2025, archival pigment prints. photo credit: Sindayiganza Photography
Bloodstone + Home installation view. photo credit: Sindayiganza Photography
(left to right) i carry it with me: Chattahoochee River, 2025, wooden box, velvet, watercolor on paper. i carry it with me: Atlantic Ocean, York, ME, 2025, wooden box, velvet, periwinkle shells, crab leg. photo credit: Sindayiganza Photography
Bloodstone + Home installation view. photo credit: Sindayiganza Photography
Collard Imprint III, 2025, monoprint on paper. photo credit: Providence Picture Frame and Dryden Gallery
Bloodstone + Home installation view. photo credit: Sindayiganza Photography
a glistening tinkling garnet breathing light, 2025, acrylic on canvas.
Bloodstone + Home installation view. photo credit: Sindayiganza Photography
Irises Rise (desolation I), 2025, collage on panel
Irises Rise (desolation II), 2025, collage on panel
Irises Rise (desolation III), 2025, collage on panel
Bloodstone + Home installation view. photo credit: Sindayiganza Photography
still from Isaiah's Inventory/Searching for Junior, 2025, 3 channel digital video, color, audio
Bloodstone + Home installation view. photo credit: Sindayiganza Photography
Refusal, 2025, collage on panel
Of Blood and a Prophecy of Blood, 2023, collage on panel
Acknowledgements
Special thanks to The RISD Museum for inviting me to present the beginning stages of the research for this work as part of their Summer Sharing programming. Special thanks also to Brown University’s Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America Artist Practitioner Fellowship and cohort., Jazzmen Lee-Johnson, Dr. Kiana Murphy, Surf Point Foundation Residency and cohort, DS Kinsel and Boom Concepts, and the Studios at Mass MoCA Residency and cohort for providing space, time, inspiration and many conversations that supported the development of this work.
Huge thanks to Brooke Erin Goldstein, DS Kinsel, and the Jamestown Art Center Team for being thought partners, supporters, and collaborators in creating a space to showcase this project in the Fall of 2025!