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basically 89 Dame’s kind of came out of

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a need to kind of see myself in kind of

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culture around me and I was really

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interested in how I saw myself reflected

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in visual arts going to art school going

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to fine art school and like going

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through art history and it’s not really

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seeing a reflection of anything that

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reflected my culture or anything I came

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from and it came to a point where it was

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kind of really down on it with myself

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and my own reflection and I decided you

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know I’m tired of seeing the usual

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tropes of beauty that are always kind of

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immortalized in visual art and pop

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culture so images like Marilyn Vil or it

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was the Taylor or even like Audrey

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Hepburn you can see them at IKEA you can

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go pick them up and bring them home and

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have them in your in your living room

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and I thought well what’s so different

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about having more of an actual

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reflection of myself like a real

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tangible reflection so I had a lot of

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imagery that I loved growing up my mom

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used to collect magazines and

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essence magazines and ebony magazines

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and a lot of that stuff started popping

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back up again online and I started

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collecting a lot of the imagery and I

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came across a stockpile of beautiful

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women that I was like yeah I could

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really use this and the series just kind

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of evolved from there and the number 89

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the number was totally arbitrary and it

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just happened to be the amount of women

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that I had and the the number sounded

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right and the the term Dame’s was

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something that I always really loved it

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was very it’s a very dated term but um

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89 day and she sounded right and the

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energy kind of flowed really well with

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the title and I just kept working on it

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it just kept evolving on its own and you

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know I’d sit in my living room I’d sit

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in my bedroom I’d sit anywhere I could

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set up my studio

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and that was the the magical space where

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89 teams could come to be so I’m really

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proud of it I love each seven every one

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of them like they’re my sisters or my

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auntie’s or like my mom’s there they’re

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my family so it’s kind of nice to see

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them all displayed up in like a living

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room space now and amongst you know

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other prominent white women I wanted to

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be able to judge suppose that and see

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that they can exist in this space just

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as much as any other woman basically

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it’s a really humbling experience to see

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something that I kind of took as my own

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personal therapy in a way now a way for

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people to kind of interact and

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communicate with each other it’s a

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really great feeling and I’m really

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interested to see how people will not

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only make their own connections with the

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material that will be there and provided

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but also how they’re going to respond to

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the art working of space through that as

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well and just to kind of see that

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connection of their own experience with

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the experience that’s already around in

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the living room space and just seeing

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that connection kind of happened there

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it’s gonna be really interesting to see

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the stories that are gonna kind of be

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made there when you experience 89 names

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you will be stepping into a room of

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energy color movement and just

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incredible magic you’ll feel it you

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might not hear it but you’ll definitely

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see it and you’ll be able to interact

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with each and every one and every woman

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will have a story for you so I look

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forward to seeing you all there

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