Which Is and Isn’t Mine is a thirty-minute single-take performance video projected of over the surface of a text painting.

The performance involves myself painting the portrait of a black woman over top of my face in acrylic paint, followed by the portrait of a white woman over the first, before I finally peel the acrylic from my face in skin-like shreds. This video is then projected over a neurotically condensed screen of language and pattern expressing the intellectual and emotional tension between multiracial anxiety, longing for ‘racial visibility’, and the violent history of blackface imagery in the united states.

This piece was installed as part of a group exhibition at the FrontierSpace Gallery in Missoula, MT in 2013