“Guided by my heritage of a love of beauty and respect for strength–in search of my mother’s garden, I found my own.”
-Alice Walker, In Search of My Mother’s Garden
Hope’s Garden is an installation that celebrates the role of a Black mother as muse. These works exist as the baggage of an artist (Lynne) who obsessed with understanding her mothers experiences as they have shaped the formation of her own identity. Hope’s Garden presents tender moments of the soft and hard places one navigates as they learn, unlearn, know and then lose their mother, or muse. This presentation highlights the notion of carrying on and tending to one's own garden in the wake of loss. Hope’s Garden is a small excerpt of the global archive of intergenerational Black motherhood and is an ode to infinite love in the space of impossible grief.
Lynne's mother's name was Hope, she is one of her gardens.
-Alice Walker, In Search of My Mother’s Garden
Hope’s Garden is an installation that celebrates the role of a Black mother as muse. These works exist as the baggage of an artist (Lynne) who obsessed with understanding her mothers experiences as they have shaped the formation of her own identity. Hope’s Garden presents tender moments of the soft and hard places one navigates as they learn, unlearn, know and then lose their mother, or muse. This presentation highlights the notion of carrying on and tending to one's own garden in the wake of loss. Hope’s Garden is a small excerpt of the global archive of intergenerational Black motherhood and is an ode to infinite love in the space of impossible grief.
Lynne's mother's name was Hope, she is one of her gardens.
