I MAY NOT SEE MYSELF AS OTHERS SEE ME NOT

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PERFORMANCE, MOVING IMAGE, SOUND, SCULPTURE, TECH

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I MAY NOT SEE MYSELF AS OTHERS SEE ME NOT TEXAS ISAIAH COLLABORATION & INSTALLATION2023

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I MAY NOT SEE MYSELF AS OTHERS SEE ME NOT
2023

 Google Creators Lab Series 7, New York City USA

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"I May Not See Myself as Others See Me Not" is a photo and video project paying homage to Cameroonian-born Nigerian photographer Samuel Fosso. Fosso's work contains autofiction and uses autobiography and fiction to recount one's life.

"I May Not See Myself as Others See Me Not" witnesses Detroit-based Nigerian interdisciplinary artist KESSWA as they perform facets of themself. KESSWA embodies the priestess, the neophyte, the medium, the time traveler, and KESSWA, the warrior. KESSWA developed these aspects in their artist's childhood through vivid dreams and adulthood through ancestral reverence, which tend to fall behind the artist's subconscious, also referred to as the veil.