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| Big Gurl:Chicken Shack; Video Still; 12 min; 2006 |
Thank you for your support in 2006!
Thank you so much for your support in 2006
of my video entitled Big Gurl. I am happy to report that my fund raising drive raised $1300.00
in production costs. Again I am so grateful to all of you who contributed to brining this project's screening to fruition at
Lawndale Art Center. The show
and screening proved to be more positive than I could have imagined. This effort was featured on KHOU (The clip is "Barbies Gone Wild"), GlassTire.com, ArtLies, Houston Press and Houston Chronicle. I am so happy to be receiving this much response and I am so thankful for your support.
Below are stills from the actual video. (Click this link to view digital photographs that accompanied this screening) Though the campaign for this project had ended, reproductions of stills featured
on this site can still be purchased by contacting the artist at Ldkelley@pvamu.edu
Project Statement:
Big Gurl
Big Gurl is a 12 min video about the scale of “small things”
occupying a larger- than-life space in everyday living. The video is one part of a larger series of short,
stop animation projects, photographs, and digital collages. Animating black Barbie like dolls, I’m playing with clichéd notions
of black woman as callused, bitter or challenging to penetrate.
This
work is a response to 60s politics that altered the perception of women (collectively) from weak to strong. To this day
perceiving black women (distinctively) as strong, often equates to be treated like a thoroughbred. Dolls
featured in the photos and video work have been altered, individually endowed with clay, and photographed in detailed settings
to represent the dark and robust women as a feminine archetype.
Big Gurl screened at
Houston's Lawndale
Art Center during the fall of 2006.
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| Big Girl: Granny and the Trampoline; Video Still; 12 min; 2006 |
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| Big Gurl: Patient Waiting Room; Video Still; 12 min; 2006 |
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