Semoria F. Mosley

South Carolina is home but I’m in Arizona.

I interrogate the relationship between habit and habitat through vehicles of shared memory. My curiosity leads me to traditional media techniques and contemporary image-making. Using practice-based research to explore the complexities of culture, identity, and environments within African diaspora communities, I focus on uncovering daily nuance and mysticism of Black Americans in the Deep South.

A combination of video, sound, performance, and photography is used to instigate familiarity through contextual difference. As a means of nontraditional collaboration, the work I share relies on empowering individual agency through experimental recollection and cultural code reconstruction. Inspired by what is ritual, routine and diaristic, when viewed through a communal lens, where do the remnants of colonization reside within myself and everyone else?