STRANDED

What would you do if you were stranded on a deserted island?

Who would you pray to? What would you build? Who would you become? During the four hundred year run of the Transatlantic Slave Trade, over five-hundred ships were lost at sea. STRANDED is a reconceptualization of this historical phenomenon. Gleaning inspiration from the harbor in which we arrived and the Orishas of Yorubaland. Cameron Alexander depicts scenes particular to the cast away genre--chiefly isolation, survival, remembrance, and homegoing. Themes of motherhood inundate the collection, harkening back to our first home. Where we find security whether in family, in religion, in spirituality, or in our dreams is the poignant question at the heart of STRANDED.

- CAMERON ALEXANDER