The exhibition Pieces of You, Pieces of Me is a diasporic web that connects culture, art, and personal identity through literal and abstract representations. It features fifteen artists from Pratt whose roots span North America, the Caribbean, and Africa. The works on view combine the fragments that colonization left behind, freezing and distorting space and time, reclaiming space for joy, grief, hope, and pride.

“It feels like you’re looking at a memory,” she said, adding that in considering how to approach a work timed with Black History Month, she wanted to focus attention on ordinary people whose faces may have been lost in the displacement of the African diaspora due to slavery, colonialism, and segregation. “I wanted to explore the thought of, ‘are there times that I mirror the people who came before me?’ When you take away time, modernity, and the objects that make up our daily life, we’re broken down to the core of who we are and what we do. When I did that, suddenly these unknown people felt closer, like my fourth great-grandma was 19 years old, getting her hair done by her mother, or dancing in her room, or admiring the night sky. Maybe we laughed or walked the same way.”