Multidisciplinary collage artist & writer
Darlene Taylor explores identity, race, kinship, place, and the journey from girlhood to womanhood. Re-membering and reclaiming a record of Black survival are at the center of her practice. With artifacts of lived experience: heirloom cloths, vintage handkerchiefs, laces, linens, worn cottons, antique buttons and ribbons, and lyrics, she archives, documents, and reassembles memories in collages that are handstitched on panels of paper and cloth alongside handcut verses of poetry and prose. The images and verses unravel what is remembered through what is passed down and preserved. The resulting layers of texture and pattern convey vulnerability and resilience.
