multi-disciplinary artist + arts educator 🖤 IG: @ jessica_a_ashman 🖤 music: @ spirit.sigh
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ALT Image credit: Jessica Ashman, Utopia Portals, 2022 Alt text: A hand drawn frame from an animated video shows the heads of a Black man and woman outlined over layers of photographic and painted materials in vivid colours.
ALT A cinema screen in a dark room. On the screen is Spirit Sigh/Jessica Ashman's Dawta – a room with two musicians performing, one holding a guitar, one sitting at a drum kit. Laid over them is a projection of an animation showing a young black girl. The image of the girl is stylised, cut up, disjointed. Captioned lyrics along the bottom of the screen read: I don't know who I want to be.
ALT A photograph of three people sitting on stage inside a cinema screening room. All three of them are holding microphones and facing the audience. Behind them is a screen that shows the CAF poster, along with the text: Dawta + Q&A with Jessica Ashman.
ALT Image shows two images laid on top of one another. The first is a photograph of a black woman playing an electric guitar. She has long braided hair, and is wearing a pink jacket. A microphone is in front of her, but she is looking down as she is playing. The image laid over the top of the photograph is a digital drawing of a black girl with her back to the camera. She has shot afro hair, which fans out around her head, and is wearing a simple long white dress. Her hands are raised. In the top left of the combined image is the Cardiff Animation Festival logo. In the bottom right is text that reads, "Dawta, plus Q&A with Jessica Ashman."
ALT Image shows two images laid on top of one another. The first is a photograph of a black woman playing an electric guitar. She has long braided hair, and is wearing a pink jacket. A microphone is in front of her, but she is looking down as she is playing. The image laid over the top of the photograph is a digital drawing of a black girl with her back to the camera. She has shot afro hair, which fans out around her head, and is wearing a simple long white dress. Her hands are raised. In the top left of the combined image is the Cardiff Animation Festival logo. In the bottom right is text that reads, "Dawta, plus Q&A with Jessica Ashman."
