Shervone Neckles

In a time when the existence and humanity of migrant families are being criminalized in America, I return to an early series titled Where Ends Meet: Our Daily Bread. A print series I developed in 2006 which explores concepts of religion, consumption and survival. Through the use of obscured family photos on unconventional found surfaces I blend; surface with depth, past with present, real with imaginary and sincerity with humor. The ineffable spirit of the Afro-Caribbean migrant family, often rendered invisible is exalted here and ingrained into the surface of an everyday American iconography.

Through the physical act of printing personal family photos onto the surface of leftover sour dough bread and weaving together my personal papers with historical, primary source documents from the 18th century, I investigate concepts of past and present-day colonialism, provenance and authorship.

Where Ends Meet: Our Daily Bread honors the indomitable spirit of my ancestors to “make a way out of no way.”