Weekend Portfolio: Tyler Dehaarte

Images and Text by Tyler Dehaarte

The Unspectacular Negro is a multi media reexamination of my upbringing and the expectations of Black bodies in society. I, like my community, am searching for the oasis promised. There is a performance that is often ingrained into Black society, the role of the spectacular negro: conditioning to perform away one’s Blackness. This performance equates to being considered human in society. What does outgrowing this lack of freedom in both public and private spaces look like? To truly be free and at rest is to be unspectacular, void of any expectations or imaginations of what you should be.