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adeleisexceptional · 2 months

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Adam Smith Square Performance - Make Yuh Bed.

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adeleisexceptional · 2 months

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When I set out to create this Performance I did not think about Emma Sulkowicz, the Columbia University student who carried a mattress around campus to protest her rape in 2012.

Nor did I consider the stories experienced by a friend who worked for a Publisher who was seduced by a woman she called mattress for all of the hijinks gotten into.

However, as happens, an idea can align, and this one has done so - and it resonates deeply.

MAKE YUH BED is literal, figurative and symbolic all at once. So you make your bed, so you shall lie...The Baby Doll (Babi Doll) struts up and down with her child in hand. She is asking for maintenance.

I confront Babi Doll's antics head on with this Performance.

Your bed is a major emotional space. A huge portion of your life is had there.

Babi Doll males 'her' bed. She lies on her mattress. It is a canvas for her sexuality - it begins in innocence...you are blanketted, cuddled....you may have had many accidents in it. Urine, blood, tears and sweat.

It is a place for sensual exploration and intercourse. It is your sleep, your health and eventually your death.

Make Yuh Bed discusses the relationship of Babi Doll with her sexuality. She puts her sheet on, she struggles, she embraces it. She lies upon it. It may bring a moment of solice. It may be a reminder to constant pain and regret.

The pain. pleasure principle.

MAKE YUH BED.

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adeleisexceptional · 3 months

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Sexypink -

As yuh make yuh bed..

So you go lie dong on it.

One of the words of wisdom passed on intergenerationally in the Afro- French Creole culture. Young girls were instructed by wiser family members of harm it would bring to them when unheeded.

The bed with its trimmings were sacrosanct. It was a metaphor for la vie en rose and to interfere with the elaborate rules would cause damnation to the unwary.

Those who did not obey would experience pure misery. Nonetheless some enjoyed the bedroom regardless and pursued the lifestyle....some when becoming pregnant would become the Baby Doll...those who did not conceive would be called the derogatory name of MATTRESS.

Indeed, it was literally how a young girl made her bed that she would lie in it for her future life.

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adeleisexceptional · 4 months

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Adele Todd - Shadow Show 2023 - A little boy (named Corderoy) , Looking for Horn and Poverty is Hell - some of my favorite Mighty Shadow songs interpreted for a show honoring the great Soca Artist.

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adeleisexceptional · 9 months

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Little Girl NOT Lost from the PoPo Series

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adeleisexceptional · 9 months

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Fragile Officer - from the PoPo series

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adeleisexceptional · 9 months

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The Toy Tricycle - from the PoPo series

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adeleisexceptional · 9 months

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A detail from Walking the Threshold.

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adeleisexceptional · 9 months

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New work yet years in the making from a body of embroideries called POPO - A look at children and police.

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adeleisexceptional · 9 months

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One of my upcoming works for Seattle show starting on July 29th.

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adeleisexceptional · 1 year

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Adele Todd - BABY - Jouvert 2023 - Not your traditional mas.

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adeleisexceptional · 1 year

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Adele Todd - JOUVERT 2023 - PERFORMANCE - BABY

This year there was something compellingly challenging to me about the Baby Doll. The portrayal of the vulnerable woman walking around with a swaddled infant seemed more concerning than ever. As happens with all of my Performances, the answer caught me unexpectedly. Years on from my original portrayal of Baby Doll (2011) and last year with Blood Mas (2021) I ask the question…What about THE BABY? To me it was so glaringly obvious! Who really sees to the baby? Also the mother herself is “ the baby” as well! Unprotected, unsupported. Yet again, it was clear that I had to send this message.

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adeleisexceptional · 1 year

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