A social sculpture about collective intelligence and immigrant sisterhoods in African beauty salons. Makeup kits and beauty stations are stationary tools that facilitate practices of repair through the act of  adornment, re-birthing the self anew from an awareness of where you come from.   This narrative is contrasted by the anatomical venus motif to examine how ocular devices conflate seeing with knowing to reveal mechanisms of surveillance ingrained within social infrastructures. The ancestors take shelter in the waters of the womb, a site from which they conjure up the future. 

Photos by Oresti Tsonopoulos