#oodcchroma

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Go SUBSCRIBE! Cause we deserve the resources to create good work consistently. Not sporadically when the funds show up. *LINK IN BIO* #BlackWomenArtists #Patreon #PayBlackWomen #OODCChroma #BlackWomenPhotographers #Red #Muladhara #RootChakra #gentrification #RedClay (at Mechanicsville, Georgia)

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When you exhibit without the necessary budget, so you fix it in post. #CHROMARed #OODCChroma #Photography #Lightpainting #Muladhara #Exhibit #Installation #FoodAltar #Editing #BlackWomenPhotographers #BlackArtists #RootChakra

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Showing some work from #OODCChroma tonight at In Living Color: A QTPoC Photography Show. Come out! 6pm. #Photography #Art #LightPainting #BlackArtists #RootChakra #Red #Muladhara #Healing #BlackHealingMatters #QueerArtist #BlackWomenPhotographers #Exhibit #Photo Show (at 368 PONCE)

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Y'all trynna contribute to my glowup or nah? $2/month = A single basic coffee $5/month = A single roundtrip Marta pass, mayyybe a beer at dinner. Or you could put that directly in the hands of an artist in your community instead. I'm using Patreon as my primary art sharing space as I produce. Your subscription keeps me fed & grows my equipment so I can always have my tools at hand when a creative moment hits. SUBSCRIBE! Patreon.com/CEMonds #Art #Photography #SupportYourArtists #BlackWomenPhotographers #ContemporaryArt #PayYourArtists #BlackArt #OODCChroma #Patreon

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I updated my site. Then got a Mac. & realized I never uploaded from my Pc. Done months later! #OutOfDarknessComes is a #Lightpainting project that preceded #OODCChroma and exhibited at @whitespace814 a few years back. If you ever have questions about why my enlightenment doesn't look like "love & light" or "stepping into the light", refer to this. #DarknessIsFertile #Photography #BlackMagic #FineArt #ContemporaryArt #BlackArt #BlackWomenPhotographers (at Atlanta, Georgia)

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CHROMA: Blue

photo by Alan Kimara Dixon

Alfredo Takori

Erin Anastasia

Bekah Pleasant

Bella Dorado

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Raw shots from our #CHROMARed photoshoots about a year ago. More on my Patreon. Go SUBSCRIBE! *LINK IN BIO* #Photography #LightPainting #Muladhara #RootChakra #OODCChroma #Chroma16 #BlackWomenPhotographers #DancersPose (at Mechanicsville, Georgia)

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Choosing. #Chroma16 #OODCChroma #Crystals #HealingStones (at Community Grounds)

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When your folks keep colorful planners & make sure your important shows are accounted for. 💙☀️💚 #OODCChroma #Chroma16 #planner #BlackArts #SupportBlackArtists

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Because #Orange may have turned out being my favorite day so far. #OODCChroma #Chroma16 #SacralChakra #photography (at Arketype / Axess Stones)

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More peeks from Night 2 if you missed it or wanna re-live! ☀️

#Orange #SacralChakra #OODCChroma #Chroma16 #ContemporaryArt #PerformanceArt #Photography #BlackArt (at Arketype / Axess Stones)

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Last night.

#OODCChroma #Chroma16 #PerformanceArt #ContemporaryArt #Blue (at Axess Barlas Inv)

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Rehearsals & conversation. Blue.

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Just after our first few takes last night, Beyoncé decided to drop the Blackest, realest video this year just to shit on “popular” culture, useless authorities, & random mad white folks while uplifting the fuck out of Southern Blackness, our culture, our aesthetic, our art & dance, our women, our inherent power, our childhoods, & our resilience.

We, of course watched it multiple times before sharing, taking in all the symbols, catching a new line to relate to on each listen.

This, just after speaking on film about funding Black women artists in the South, funding Chroma in particular.

I’m no Beyoncé, but I most certainly wake up in all my Creole Blackass glory each day. & after celebrating the video, I got back to work with my partner, Anicka Austin, also a Black Southern woman to create this dope project.

Chroma isn’t a Black-exclusive work. We have very consciously chosen our collaborators, their roles, and continue to work in a way that will make this project effective. What Chroma is, is a Black-Southern-woman-healer led project that blends art with ancestral healing.

Chroma is a collaborative multimedia exhibit using photography, performance art, and installation to highlight the power of color within healing practices. We explore each color of the chakra system through these mediums & create immersive experiences for our audience to activate each chakra.

As professional artists, some of this work is led by research and skill. But, as Black woman healers, a good portion of it is informed by ancestral knowledge as well. We inherently know that the popular chakra systems are rooted beyond Eastern philosophy and we are digging deep to make this project a healing one while making it look flawless. Because aesthetics.

While we get this funding, Imma stay over here creating work that centers us, catering to my people, history, culture, and gleaming in all my Black Magic.