Diamond Stingily
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Diamond Stingily works in a wide variety of media, from spoken word, video and audio to sculpture and installation. Exploring themes of class, race and gender, her work is infused with the deeply personal, often incorporating motifs from her own childhood and references to her family. Poetry is also an important part of Stingily’s output. She began writing as an 8 year old in a diary gifted to her by her grandmother, a habit which she currently sustains in tandem and sometimes interwoven with her work as a visual artist. She also hosts an online radio broadcast, The Diamond Stingily Show, where she engages with other writers and plays recordings of them reading their work. From benign symbols of her childhood to pieces that evoke aspects of normalized violence experienced by her or her family members—like flood lights and cameras as surveillance methods deployed in certain racialized ghettos—her art and words are a meditation on belonging, family, community, and most importantly, speak of the African diaspora through her perspective as a black woman.
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Diamond Stingily works in a wide variety of media, from spoken word, video and audio to sculpture and installation. Exploring themes of class, race and gender, her work is infused with the deeply personal, often incorporating motifs from her own childhood and references to her family. Poetry is also an important part of Stingily’s output. She began writing as an 8 year old in a diary gifted to her by her grandmother, a habit which she currently sustains in tandem and sometimes interwoven with her work as a visual artist. She also hosts an online radio broadcast, The Diamond Stingily Show, where she engages with other writers and plays recordings of them reading their work. From benign symbols of her childhood to pieces that evoke aspects of normalized violence experienced by her or her family members—like flood lights and cameras as surveillance methods deployed in certain racialized ghettos—her art and words are a meditation on belonging, family, community, and most importantly, speak of the African diaspora through her perspective as a black woman.