Adaptive Resilience

Description

Earthenware clay, African Krobo Trade beads and Bicycle parts

2.5′ x 5’ x 10”

2024

Photo Credit: Artist

Adaptive Resilience explores the quiet strength required to continuously reshape oneself while carrying the weight of memory, culture, and inherited responsibility. It is not simply about surviving adversity, but about evolving through it—bending without breaking, shifting without losing one’s core. This work speaks to the emotional labor of navigating multiple worlds, where identity is not fixed but constantly negotiated. It speaks to the strength found not in rigidity, but in the ability to adapt—culturally, emotionally, and spiritually—while staying rooted in one’s truth. This concept acknowledges the labor of survival, the quiet negotiation of identity, and the beauty of evolving in response to ever-changing landscapes.

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