Film& Video Projects

Made as a visual component to a poetry series I wrote about black male soul singers and our working definition of the word "diva".

Most of the poems are written from the perspective of famous musicians who have endured a public form of tragedy and have skewed the notion of keeping certain emotions and activities separate from their public persona. When I think of the word “diva,” I think of how it is most commonly used as a negative term referring to a female entertainer who demands a lot and craves the spotlight. While this may be one of the many definitions of the word "diva", I wanted to highlight how men can and more often than women are divas in regards to the persona they create on stage and how a "diva" means, in the most basic of definitions, is someone who has a divine quality that others are drawn to.