Transformation in the Sky
by Melody Pineda
featuring photography by Savannah Dodd, Mia Huang, Esther Mathieu, and David Swartz
Mixed media is a means to express my relationship to identity, otherness and marginalization. Through collecting and interlocking images, weaving becomes a tool and symbol for intersecting realities. I visualize simultaneous conversations to attach paradoxes, narratives, perspectives and dichotomies of truth. This represents how dialogues cannot exist without each other. As a first generation Black Caribbean American, my journey began with investigating how to perceive discussions in American media regarding “both sides”of history: The oppressed and the oppressors' concurrently. I weave both sides of history and its origins in hopes to reveal hidden structures, truths and answers toward liberation.
This work weaves together four photography pieces featured in past issues of carte blanche. Find the original artists and their works at the following links.
Savannah Dodd- Slow still life, issue 47
Mia Huang- New Year, 2020, issue 50
ABOUT THE CREATOR
Photo Credit: Laura Duval
Afro-Caribbean Queer artist Melody Pineda (She/They), is a First generation American, from New York. They use mixed media to envision their relationship with identity and its influences in the context of their art. Themes that surface within their art are: the American Dream, immigration, surveillance, and community. These narratives are tools connecting realities intrinsic to imperialism, and white supremacist institutions as a means to visualize the interwoven histories thriving off the invention of marginalization.
Website: www.melodypinedastudio.com