"I've configured the space to resemble the set of my latest video, Scene 8: The Aircraft's Refrigerated Storage. This show is part of an ongoing series that conflates notes on travel with impressions of everyday life. I build malleable worlds to offset a robust protagonist whose quirks stem from efforts to correct the asymmetrical relationships they encounter. Accentuating that which is off-kilter through drawings and videos, this work began in 2021 while I was in residence with Skidmore College's Tang Teaching Museum. Like everyone in 2021, I was maneuvering through a post-pandemic landscape. Expanding upon ideas of travel, I am currently exploring what it means to navigate the globe with respect to the repatriation of heritage objects acquired during territorial conquests from cultures once regarded as primitive. Plasticine, toys, and souvenirs are employed when exploring the perpetual motion of a colonial journey like the African diaspora.

The snowglobes are part of an ongoing series of stop-motion videos and drawings exploring the perpetual motion of the term “diaspora” and the repatriation of heritage objects." - Lauren Kelley