There’s still time left to witness the transformative and inspiring “Open Call 2023 Group Exhibition”! Don’t miss out on 10 artworks encompassing sculpture, paintings, and video installations from emerging NYC artists like me. Closing Jan 21! Get free tickets at theshed.com #OpenCallGroupExhibition #TheShed. I chose to be very vulnerable Friday night and was given a space to do so at the Shed. Destiny Brundidge came through for me and helped make It’s Fitting: A Public Ecdysis (ek-duh-seez) a reality. @yyesstiny 🩷 I don’t know if I can be that open in a public space again, but I’m glad I did. Thank you so much to everyone who showed up and engaged with me and the objects I made and the layers I’m shedding, thanks for smiling at my nervous asides. A huge thank you so much to the team at the Shed, especially the curation team @dejabelardo Assistant Curator+ and @edgie_agrees Curator-at-large. @tlady77 and the programming team. @noelwoodford and @adam.reichphotography for their documentation work @dis_philippe and Kiana Jackson for making sure my name pops up when my mom googles me. @mk_meador, @broadway.hans , Darren and the production and install crew. Jose, Angel, Vim, Anna, Laura, Lilibet and Matt; you all were lovely. And thanks also to Ben and Ben of Green Crates for handling my art with care. And a double thank you to MK and Dejá for handling me with care and creating accommodations for me that are not typically built into organizational structures. ec•dy•sis the process of shedding the old skin (in reptiles) or casting off the outer cuticle (in insects and other arthropods).