Basil Kincaid
About:
I am a Vessel and emerging World Builder. I have been a vivid Dreamer ever since my early childhood, I am driven by dreams in concert with an ardent duty to humanity and the evolution of my family traditions, I am guided by our connection to ancestral power, insight, and imagination.
Can I trust you with my garden, 2016.
My quest is to understand the wild tapestry of my own personal identity and cultural identity within the African Diaspora, contextualized by the framework of my American experience. I use this exploration to cultivate healing on a personal and cultural level, towards the remedy of Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome and the unification of the African Diaspora. While I am passionate about all areas of anti-bias work, social justice at the intersection of white-supremacy, classism, and environmentalism are at the core of my creative questioning. Within my practice I seek to promote empathy, critical thought, and inclusion. I also observe how perception and prejudice are impacted by one’s relationship to place and a sense of belonging or displacement. My lifelong goal is to co-create healing spaces that stimulate the ancestral memory of universal love as the true freedom within us, while activating participation in shared liberation as communities on local and global scales.
I miss you most in moments of silence, 2016.
I take an interdisciplinary and collaborative approach to creative questioning and the creation of experiences, artifacts and art objects.I meditate, write, quilt, collage, install, photograph, perform, play, and invent games as gateways to understanding aspects of self and others. My work is site-specific and comprised of found, discarded, or donated materials with relevance to the place of cultivation. This methodology is an investigation of how waste is a reflection of lived experience.
Unpacking Trauma A Renewal of the Self, 2016.
My stylistic approach is influenced by the innovations, practices, and cultural products of Black America, West Africa, and Japan. More specifically, I am interested in Black American folk and fine art, music, poetry, and family traditions. (text website artist/Copyright the artist)
