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Mojuba: an expansive memory refusing to be housed in any single place, bound by limits of time, enclosed within the outlines of a map, encased in the physicality of body, or imprisoned as exhibit in a museum.

- M. Jacqui Alexander

How do we build a radical visual archive of the African Diaspora that grapples with the recalcitrant and the disaffected, the unruly and the dispossessed? Through what modalities of perception, encounter, and engagement do we constitute it?

- Tina M. Campt

Ole Dandy, the Tribute is a work of historical fiction about Jean Loren Feliz, a male impersonator living in the early 1900s. The work traces Feliz’s journey to NYC during the Great Migration, their participation in the Harlem Renaissance, and their pursuit of a performance career in the United States and abroad. I memorialize Feliz through an extensive archive that includes silver gelatin prints, wet-plate collodion glass plate positives and negatives, tintypes, wardrobe, and letters.