Billie-James

Billie-James is a photographic series displaying the artist’s experience being Black in the world she grew up in versus the experience of her father. Reece, born and raised in the South of the United States with a father that was brought up during the Civil Rights Movement, has created a linkage from her childhood upbringing to his. The reasoning behind the display of family archives, word art, and contemporary installations is to create a parallel between the artist’s father’s life and her own. While one’s life tells the story of a Black boy growing up in America during the 1950s and the other the story of a biracial, half Black half Mexican girl in the 1990s, what permeates the narratives is that nothing has changed regarding discrimination and racism.