As a multi-disciplinary artist, Ashanté Kindle (@ashantekindle) creates abstracted wave forms inspired by the textures that occur in Black hair naturally and through a range of styling techniques. These waves exist as a visual language used to celebrate the history and beauty of Blackness.

I was able to complete the process of making a mold of one of my acrylic wave forms for the first time. This was more of a test to see if the process would work the way I wanted it to. Now that I know it will, time to really get things going. Now I'll be doing a bit more research focusing on materials to cast and working on something larger to make a mold out of.

In my practice, there are a lot of slow moments that allow me space to really think through things and how they can show up in my work. I'm still figuring out how I want the final form of this exploration to exist and that's the fun part. So excited to figure all this new stuff out.