Carla Golder

The focus of my art is about the impact of the African Diaspora and how Black women struggle to overcome oppression. In the spirit of Sankofa, I am reaching back and retrieving elements from past work and reconfiguring them in order to tell the story of the African-American Diaspora-of being uprooted and re-rooted in hostile environments.

The drawings I am currently creating are reflections of the divine feminine. The divine feminine is the spiritual inner resource from which African-American women can derived the strength and perseverance for their journey through the African diaspora. An affinity to nature and the elements is essential to our finding the way to a place of refuge. The beautiful lotus flower rising out of squalid and fetid waters exemplifies our passage to freedom.