Tryna Keep A Straight Face (2021) - Digital Quilt Self-Portrait
[Image Description: Wit Lopez, a lightskinned Black, gender non-conforming person with a dark beard, is seen from the chest up. They are wearing a light blue gradient scarf on their head, a silver septum ring, and striped lipstick in red, yellow, green, and purple. Coming out of the light blue head scarf are 8 yarn braids in red, yellow, green, and purple, 2 braids in each color. In front of Wit a large pile of yarn braids in the same 4 colors and their eyes are obscured by a very small pile of the same braids. The left and right sides of the image are also covered in large piles of the same yarn braids. Directly behind Wit’s shoulders and head are two translucent gray triangles with the points facing downward. The background of the image is a digital quilt made of square images of various textiles in varying sizes and shades of red, yellow, green, and purple.]