The Black Interior silkscreen prints on paper and audio sound work take its name from the title of the book of essays of the same title by the poet Elizabeth Alexander (2004). Assembled in a darkened, meditative setting, the collection documents thirteen accounts of racist microaggression from four Black men who anonymously shared their everyday lived experiences of growing up in or currently living in Essex, England. The collection of prints forms part of The Blackness Series - an ongoing series of numbered text works, commencing in 2016 and continuing to date, documenting historical and contemporary Black-lived experiences alongside broader critical social commentary. The font is typically black typefaced on a black background, making the works intentionally arduous to read. Through this technique, the work attempts to accentuate how Black communities are held in the tension between hypervisibility and invisibility in a fractured world. The works become fully legible to read as light reflects and interacts with the work—whether on a digital screen display or with the work itself. The audio edit contains abstracted and fragmented noise from the 1970s and 80s British television, which aired numerous prime-time programmes that were blatantly racist.

The prints and audio were exhibited in gallery two as part of the solo exhibition 'Othered in a region that has been historically Othered' at Focal Point Gallery between 25 June to 18 Sept 2022. The exhibition was also shortlisted for the Freelands Awards 2021. 

A mini-print edition is also available from Focal Point Gallery - each print is 280 x 280 mm and is an edition of 3 + 1 AP.