In Motion is an Afro-Futurist take on healing and spiritual growth. Through these paintings, vulnerability is harnessed to explore and thus reveal the darkest crevasses of our minds. Balance is next, finding it in all things is very essential. Our subconscious, constantly shaped by both good and bad experiences, becomes embedded with past influences. Without careful examination, this coding from our past can prevent our own healing. In Motion shows a black woman’s growth from what no longer serves her.
Initially starting as a study of light and shadow, the works evolved into a pursuit to uncover the critical balance between them. The nude figures personify our vulnerable subconscious, and the obsidian black bodies constitute that part of ourselves that is typically unseen and away from the light.
It is only through the process of healing that light is shed onto the pain of darkness, and we are naked before the light.
Aliyah Cydonia 