The African Hair Braiding salon is a transactional space where collaboration, cultural exchange, and image production take place.
This year-long project in collaboration with Recess Activities investigates braiding as a metaphor and rule-based framework for production. The act of braiding informs modes of making where juxtaposition, layering, and repetition produce a range of meanings.
The work is informed by growing collections of beauty supply objects, field recordings, Hair Braider business cards, scanned images, and reference texts.