After the murder of Mike Brown and the viral image of his body in Ferguson, Missouri, I became acutely and personally aware of media representations of the black body. Since 2014, it has become frighteningly routine to turn on the television or log onto Facebook and see a video or image of a black person either dead or dying. Eric Garner, Philando Castile, Walter Scott. Images of Africans dying in the Mediterranean.
This trope of the black body as a site of death, oppression and destruction; however, stands in direct contrast with what I saw in my friends, family and my community - joy, love and ultimately, magic. Magic that transcends the oppression we face in this world and connects us to something far greater and deeper.
"Infinite Essence" is therefore my response to reductive media imagery, and a call for more positive an
