"FOR WHITE WOMEN ONLY"
Rooms Fall Apart: A Serious Play
My Visitors
The Vibe

When I sparked this journey, my intention was to confront the manner in which Black Women have painstakingly assimilated to a euro-centric standard of beauty perception. And while in some situations this remains to be true, a more profound realization became hallelujah clear. Black Is Beauty. Not through our shades, but by our Blackness alone. And everybody knows it. Except us.
Both the Arab cab driver that bowed at my feet, and the little black girl who excitedly proclaimed to her mother "OOOHHH Mommy!! I wanna be Black like her when I grow up!" knew my ancient truth without me having to articulate it....that GOD is Black, and Woman.
i gave you this print because you loved it so. thank you. and you're welcome.
I gave Doreen Bolger, Director of the Baltimore Musem of Art, a full black/gold manicure and dusted her eyelids with glitter as she listened to Nina Simone and looked coyly through her lenses upon my black face. a few days into the production, a Rooms Fall Apart cast mate informed me that the director of BMA was in my bathroom and she cant bring herself to remove her now horribly chipped polish in fear of becoming a regular person again...
Rooms Fall Apart Art

Rooms Fall Apart: A Serious Play really wasn't a "play" at all. Over 20 artists were given over 20 rooms to recreate inside Maryland Art Place with the intention of reshaping a persons reality for 5 minutes. A crawling exhibition guided by "snatchers. These theatrical tour guides seperate the audience (50-100 people per show) into several small groups and lead them all on a, somtimes uncomfortable sometimes hysterical,, performance art exhibition via various pathways. No 2 groups travel the same path, or visit 100% of the rooms. The series of shows ran 10 times over a 2 week period in April 2013.
Him and his friend left with hard-on's.....
The audience during the midnight set brought a very extreme energy. thats all i have to say about that.
Links

http://roomsfallapart.tumblr.com/
http://whatweekly.com/2013/05/12/rooms-fall-apart-an-experiential-telling/
http://www.imposemagazine.com/photos/rooms-fall-apart-a-serious-play-in-baltimore#34
The audience during the midnight set brought a very extreme energy. thats all i have to say about that.
Dear Sista, I gave you two options. in one hand i had cocoa butter. in the other, skin bleaching cream. you chose the bleaching cream and rubbed it over your black skin. this displeased me very much. you were too happy to recognize this.
you entered quite angry....sat unknowingly on my toilet full of gold shit and got even more pissed.
My Experience

"For White Women Only" emerses its voyuers in the multi-sensorial exploration of being a Black Woman in the 21st Century, surrounded by white women. This interactive exhibit is an amalgamation of time, class, generations, and choices; to bleach, or not to bleach....to inject, or to weave....to listen to Nina or Nikki.