Kendra Jayne Patrick

Qualeasha Wood comes of age in a cultural landscape wherein social media has moved black femme vernacular from the margins to the center of mainstream fashion and corporeal aesthetics. See God in the Mirror [Pt.2], (2020) belongs to a series of tapestries embedding  Medieval Catholic iconography in native digital composition strategies. Her work is striking because it suggests that Wood has chosen to skip the accompanying lament that might consume an artist a generation older than she, and instead use this new reality as prima materia on which to pivot towards something new. After all: getting paid is the new Black, right?