mariam camara

WHy the Caged Bird Sings:
Freedom Through the Voice

BIO / MARIAM CAMARA

I am a 26 year old multimedia artist born and based in a section of Lenapehoking, colonially known as New York City. At the heart of my work is a desire to speak to, represent, and transcend the intangible. My art non-exhaustively has motifs of hope, strength, vulnerability, experience, faith, surrealism, light, nature, guidance, and the inner faculties such as the mind, sense, and soul.

How does one recognize and access their love? That innate, nourishing, bountiful, light we knew when the world receiving us seemed as innocent as ourselves. How: when we are shamed, alienated, silenced, feeble, slow to relinquish wounds, and limited in ability to separate, do we free ourselves from the hold of despair?

I LookED WITHIN.

“God is sufficient for me, and God is the best disposer of affairs.”

I LookED WITHIN.

I clarified love's source. I made personal vows. I attuned myself to the quieted voice of my inner child. She was conditioned to mumble her needs half-heartedly, eyes downcast. So I let my voice ring. I let my voice linger on words, notes, and images remembered. With sunrise comes sunset. With hardship comes ease. With repetition comes tolerance. With expression comes relief. Emotions communicate your past. Speech reinforces belief.

I LookED around.