Using formal and intuitive processes with interdisciplinary techniques of gathering found objects, relief printmaking, and applique sewing, she stitches together intersecting themes of their stories.
Lemonias’ art practice tells stories of labor, often unseen and untold. For NJMML, she created a tapestry and sculpture in response to the stories gathered from the community events. These pieces celebrate the history of Black migrants who seasonally shucked oysters in the Port Norris area. With an image reference from the Library of Congress, she constructed the tapestry using clothes collected from community events, scrap fabric, a bucket, oyster packaging, sail and shells from Bayshore Center at Bivalve. The sculpture uses a wheelbarrow often used to move the oysters, a sail and shells also from Bayshore Center at Bivalve that fills it.
Shuckers Shucking I
Medium(s): Sewing, Found Objects, Woodblock Relief Printing.
Material(s): Clothes from community event, scrap fabric, bucket, oyster packaging, sail and shells from Bayshore Center at Bivalve, relief print on upholstery fabric.
Dimensions: 31” x 26.25”
Shellpile
Medium(s): Found Object Sculpture.
Material(s): Wheel barrow, cinder bricks, sail and shells from Bayshore Center at Bivalve.
Dimensions: 53” x 30” x 23”
