My sin is blue

My Sin is Blue, is a body of photographs, words, and video archives of passing black peoples. It is a visual compilation of Ayomide Tejuoso’s (Plantation) reflections on black plurality, black nihilism and pain, black death, and the black divine, as she wanders through the diaspora and Lagos. Featuring photographs of black beach boys, horse riders, bikers, and children, the project attempts to follow the black spirit, the black collective. In addition, it attempts to archive the depth of the black existence, the phenomena “that we existed before and will continue to exist again” (referencing Deana Lawson’s Centropy). Through found and developed visuals of still black forms, black bodies embracing loved ones, dusted in blue and shadowed by water, the project affirms this phenomena by divinfying the mundane with light. Light becomes a divine language, a luminating force on the black experience.