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![Alligator Figure surrounded by Mardi Gras beads and voodoo symbols](/sites/default/files/styles/full/public/2023-05/PT_AddieMIngilton_05_0.jpg?itok=loFTT2yE)
Addie Kae Mingilton
Dawlin
My approach to painting during my time at RISD has changed not only through its procedural methods but its material methods as well. This is due to my own realization of where the work is being made and who is viewing the work during and after receiving an MFA. I am here to receive a $40,000 piece of paper representing the commodification of the artist and their works privy to the caste system within the art sphere. However despite the many studio visits telling me otherwise I will not become a piece of the system that burns my skin when touched.They want me to be grateful that they let me be here, and among them. Instead I will surround myself with love, my higher power. I am here for my ancestors that were brought in chains, I am here for those that never made it out and will never make it out. I realize that my existence within the higher education system is literally taking years off of my life. All so that I am ready to face the “real world” afterwards. But through this I have learned that I must hold my ancestors and their love by my heart, they make me and I make them.
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![Side table wrapped with with wire and empty alcohol bottles. Hold of the table is burnt and rusted nails cover the top of the table except for a flower printed onto the table](/sites/default/files/styles/full/public/2023-05/PT_AddieMingilton_01.jpg?itok=LbdLOK4d)
Fillmore Nkisi
Creole Magick
3'x2'
2023
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![Black leather with several sacks sewn around the edges. A weaving including a glass hot sauce bottle hangs overlapping. Beneath on the wall dangles silver Mardi gras beads. Beneath on the floor are two black prayer candles, a silver vase containing spiritual herbs.](/sites/default/files/styles/full/public/2023-05/PT_AddieMingilton_02.jpg?itok=CngkTkm0)
Gris Gris
Creole Magick, Ritual
6'x3'
2023
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![TV with object on top accompanied by a weaving reading "NO WHITE NOISE"](/sites/default/files/styles/full/public/2023-05/PT_AddieMingilton_03.jpg?itok=sD_Ptc35)
Static
Creole Magick
Instillation
2023
Greatest Singer of Her Race
Bench, Weaving, Cloth, Video, Chicory
4'x5'
2023
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![Alligator Figure surrounded by Mardi Gras beads and voodoo symbols](/sites/default/files/styles/full/public/2023-05/PT_AddieMIngilton_05.jpg?itok=qKizo1_s)
Big Blue Bayou Bi$H
Creole Magick
6'x4'
2022
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![Table with painting and wall piece along with chair sculpture modeled after figure.](/sites/default/files/styles/full/public/2023-05/PT_AddieMingilton_06.jpg?itok=XPvL0dYR)
Fillmore Table
Creole Magick
Instillation
2022
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![Painting with stitched pieces of dyed fabric and Mardi Gras beads.](/sites/default/files/styles/full/public/2023-05/PT_AddieMingilton_07.jpg?itok=U2bJz0yU)
Work It Out For Me
Creole Magick
5'x7'
2021
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![Metal serving bowl filled with inedible ingredients for gumbo.](/sites/default/files/styles/full/public/2023-05/PT_AddieMingilton_08.jpg?itok=0y4UXj9Q)
I Fucked The Roux
Creole Magick
1'x1'
2022
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![Alligator with head out of the window of a mustang driving at night.](/sites/default/files/styles/full/public/2023-05/PT_AddieMingilton_09.jpg?itok=xsml8xYk)
Dark Liquor
Aquarelle, Rum, Watercolor Paper
8"x12"
2022
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![Alligator belly and human with severed head exposing bellies.](/sites/default/files/styles/full/public/2023-05/PT_AddieMingilton_10.jpg?itok=Gzap0SRN)
Death Roll
Aquarelle, Rum, Watercolor Paper
8"x12"
2021