PHOTOGRAPHY  |MALA | ISOLATION REFRESHED ____________________________________________________


Mala | Isolation Refreshed
Digital Prints
Dimensions Varied
2006
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ISOLATION REFRESHED
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Why?

 

Where is everyone?

 

Ever since I was younger, I’ve loved and wanted more from the streets.  The woman in these photographs is my character Mala (Spanish translation bad or rotten) named that because she defies the notions of how her most intimate and larger community feels that she should be as black, woman, poor.  In this piece Mala awakens to see that all that she has known is now abandoned, left, gone to ruin, the environment is indeed, mala.  Much like my own 7 year old self that wondered why did I live in the land of the failed projects of the 60’s and 70’s, overrun community gardens, dilapidated buildings, grown-ups who were just trying to sleep and profoundly beautiful intoxicants.

 

Journeying through dried poppies, abandoned streets, unable to stay awake she walks back to see the image that perhaps made her fall asleep.  Isolation Refreshed is a neo - meditation on emotions, post industrial, post riot, post American Dream spaces.

 

Concept and Editing: Noelle Lorraine Williams | Photography and Technical Editing: Stafford Woods