Nigative Space

Nigative Space captures the moment Kanye West met with Donald Trump in the White House—a moment loaded with tension, contradiction, and public backlash. I was interested less in the politics and more in the silence around it: the discomfort, the confusion, the space people didn’t know how to sit with.

The work is made entirely with black marker, using darkness and restraint as both material and message. I titled it Nigative Space as a play on “negative space,” reclaiming language while pointing directly at the racial weight and reaction surrounding that moment. The piece holds what was said, what wasn’t, and everything projected onto him afterward. It’s about presence, absence, and how Black figures are read, judged, and frozen in time when they step outside expectation.