Krista Franklin @therealkristaf describes her work as emerging at the intersection of poetics, pop culture, and African Diasporic history. The Fantastic, the surreal, mythmaking, Black portraiture, Black archives, and the collective consciousness are a few conceptual preoccupations. The forms take shape as collages, hand papermaking, installation, poetry, letterpress prints, altered books, performance, and recordings. The appropriation of image and text in Franklin's practice is a political act of chiseling at narratives historically inscribed on women and people of color in order to forge imaginative spaces for radical visions and possibilities.
