Afatasi The Artist, is a cultural curator of Afro-Polynesia. Born and raised in San Francisco, California, Afatasi is a multidisciplinary creative, whose mediums include, and are not limited to: textile artist, designer, writer, poet, photographer, and singer/songwriter. She creates fashion, art, prose, and music, all through her unique Afro-Polynesian lens and perspective. A few of her personal values include: honoring ancestors, the DECOLONIZATION of spaces, Black Lives Matter, self-love and Afros.
Artist Statement
Afatasi the Artist's primary medium has been combining textiles of her Afro-Polynesian heritage, to convey abstract stories of her personal life, and her personal experiences growing up in San Francisco, California. Her fine art (TAPA)stries, are hanging wall tapestries which are hand and machine sewn. As additional apart of her art aesthetic, Afatasi creates outfits to match her art pieces, in response to the racism she's faced in the art world.
Afatasi has created her own textiles for various projects, using various techniques like stenciling or spray painting on fabric. Recently, she has incorporated linoleum block printing into her creative arsenal, creating imagery depicting her unique and quirky Afro-Polynesian lens.
For far too long in our society, Black natural hair has been deemed, "unprofessional, unruly, and unmanageable", and has caused black women much stress, anxiety, and in some cases hatred of the hair that grows out of our head. Thus, the 'Afro Bloc Party' lino-block series was created!
The 'Afro Bloc Party Series', will be block printed on various fabrics, as well as on canvas, and in various color ways. It names five different Afro hairstyles; each print is unique and fun, celebrating the fact that, 'OUR HAIR GROWS TOWARDS THE SUN!'
