My Name is Phlegm

INTERDISCIPLINARY ARTIST  May 2019

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Phlegm is a New Orleans native visual artist. Through the use of self-portraiture and mixed-media face painting, Phlegm strives to pay direct homage to native African religious and cultural practices and also expand the representation of Black native New Orleanians by using the face as a canvas.

This video portrait was made by adapting an essay Phlegm wrote onto the screen. The original essay is titled “An Ancestor Greased My Scalp In A Dream Last Night”.