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So these are
disembodied drawings

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that I started with when
I was in art school.

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And I think I was
dealing with the seeing

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and being seen having the
experience of being the only

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Black person in the
entire Art Department.

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And also having a
disability and just

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feeling a little bit
outside of my body because I

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was so aware of how
others were looking at me.

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So I started drawing these.

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And then they turned
into these pieces

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because there weren't
very many women either.

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And there was something
about being a woman

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that seemed like what other
people were trying to say

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was ugly or vulgar.

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So I started making
these drawings

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and I was writing some of these
poems around the same time.

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And I wanted to say, well
no, it's actually not vulgar.

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It's actually beautiful and
we should embrace the beauty

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of our bodies in general.

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It doesn't even matter if you're
a man or woman or whatever.

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Let's not color ourselves ugly.

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Let's not color our insides
ugly or our outsides ugly.

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Let's turn it inside out.

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And it's a natural thing.

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So the lines are meant to be
both natural and stylized.

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There are like hundreds
of those I've done

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that I haven't shown anybody.

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So that's another
spectacle thing.

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You guys are special.

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[LAUGHTER]