Mourning Stutter is a multi-component project informed by the successive murders of black people by police officers. Consisting of performance, video, photography, music score, and text work, this project not only reclaims the freedom to access and hold public space without fear, but also the necessity to imagine, build and experience joy in a free public sphere. The title of the project posits that the black community is constantly in a state of perpetual mourning, specifically relating to the violence of policing and white supremacy.

On Sunday May 14, 2017, I created a series of actions for the camera, in over 30 public locations throughout Center City Philadelphia. Following a predetermined route, these actions responded to and were choreographed by the architecture and urban design of each location, discovering unintentional spatial relationships to body and site. Using a 35 mm camera, only one photograph was taken during each action and location. 

Commissioned by the Barnes Foundation for the exhibition Person of the Crowd: The Contemporary Art of Flânerie.