“Making sense of what ___ pieces were left…” (2023) uses a series of nine digital collage and written short pieces to tell stories of ancestral lineage and resistance, illuminating the link between Black resistance histories in the Deep South and the Caribbean. The collage pieces, made exclusively in PowerPoint, cover themes such as technology, labor exploitation, food ways, and autonomy. The collages are simultaneously overwhelming and subtle, each viewing has the potential to reveal a previously unseen layer of imagery.
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Digital America interviewed Lu Gibson in November 2023.
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Lu Gibson is a writer and digital collage artist from Philadelphia, PA. They received a bachelor’s degree from Temple University’s Department of Africology and African American Studies in 2020. While currently working in retail, they started their current project, Making sense of what pieces were left (2023) as a creative outlet, which evolved into a robust long-term project.
