WORDS FROM JADE WILLIAMS
My practice constructs a living cosmology from materials that have historically held Black interior life—textiles, family heirlooms, embellishments, reflective materials, and salvaged objects. Drawing from domestic and spiritual traditions in which adornment, ritual, and environment function as systems of care and protection, I build worlds that move between the body, domestic space, archive, and architecture.
I am interested in how bodies become homes, how environments hold memory, and how beauty functions as both lure and protection. Through installation, textile, assemblage, cyanotype, and text, I create systems of orientation that explore what is held, transformed, and carried forward.
Increasingly, my practice asks what becomes possible after survival: how we inhabit the worlds we have built, and how objects, environments, and acts of adornment can create conditions for refuge, experimentation, joy, and becoming.
THOUGHTS ON THE LAB
Latitude gave me exposure to possibilities I hadn’t fully considered within my practice. Working with photography, scanning, and print processes expanded my technical understanding and showed me how dramatically these tools could transform the work itself.
It also significantly refined my approach to archiving. I began thinking more intentionally about images, scans, reproductions, and documentation as materials—not simply records of the work. That way of thinking continues to influence how I approach memory, objects, family materials, and visual histories. I'm honestly so grateful for my time here.