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Chandra Brooks is a multidisciplinary artist merging storytelling, postcolonial critique, and handcraft traditions through visual art, bookmaking, and social practice rooted in Black Aesthetics, sustainability, and community-based education.

THE ZIGGURAT is...

Four shipping containers which stand as a Black Aesthetic philosophical multilayered metaphor on late staged capitalism, environmental ethics, the rights of migrant women and storytelling through my handcrafted light cuttings (light transmittance art). In this instance their importance is one of aesthetic, light and beauty as a space for conversation and learning.

Self-Portraits

Did you ever read Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin? This series of self-portraits is the reverse of his experiment to see what it is like to experience racism. These self portraits are contextualized within the framework of The White Rat.

DOLLHOUSE FOR A RUNAWAY SLAVE

A revision of La Rate Blanche from the vantage point of a runaway slave falling "through the looking glass" into another time and space. A time, space and place akin to stepping through the wardrobe into Narnia. Our princess, the runaway slave is left to what she deems worthy of being worked with to construct her caste, her kingdom and her fairytale. This parallells The Ziggurat Project in miniature. An accessible hands on opportunity to work with Chandra Brooks ornamental aesthetic works from The Universal Fairytale project. These include ornamentation such as this grisaiille detail from The White Rat amongst other aesthetic elements.

LIGHT CUTTINGS

AUTOETHNOGRAPHY
by
Chandra Brooks

PHOTGRAPHIC PROCESSES

Photographic processes refer to the techniques used to create images using light-sensitive materials. From traditional darkroom methods like cyanotype, silver gelatin, and tintypes to modern digital practices, each process offers a unique texture, tone, and storytelling potential. These techniques are not just tools—they are part of the language of photography, shaping how we see, remember, and interpret the world.