Black Cathedral (or the Nyxontology of Otherworlds)

Black Cathedral (or the Nyxontology of Other-Worlds) is a video installation that explores Black, queer futurity through stop-motion animation created with tintype photography projected onto skin-like screens grown from biomaterial. The project expands on the body of work I began in my 2022 piece, Black Honey (Or an Exuberance of Drapetomania).

The installation will eventually consist of 9 video loops of speculative, queer icons that will be projected onto 12’ x 5’ tall surfaces.

Rite-making serves to create a portal into a place and time where Black, queer bodies are sites of pleasure and possibility–removed from the threat of physical and social death–where those bodies become ritual vessels that allow for entry into these rival geographies. Here, animated bodies and skin-like projection surfaces merge as vessel and portal for viewers within the towering circle of speculative icons.

Fall 2025 INSTALLATION - Howl! GROUP EXHIBITion | Human Resources, Los Angeles

Spring 2025 INSTALLATION - The AIr We Share GROUP EXHIBITion | Craft Contemporary Museum, Los Angeles

Black Cathedral Team