Tra’ Slaughter Fine Art
Tra’ Slaughter Fine Art
Our Story
I aim to create powerful and persuasive art with a social function, that challenges our understanding of the world in which we live and how we operate within it.
As an artist, I am a reflector, translator, and mediator of societal issues, including racial and gender inequality, civil rights, globalization, environmental crisis, greed, cultural and social identity.
I create works that act as windows, providing insight and focus on complex subjects, while offering my unique interpretations, and raising difficult questions.
My current body of work can be described as Expressive Assemblage consisting of found materials with symbolic potency reborn to tell their stories in mixed media paintings and assemblage sculptures.
Every piece I create has numerous interwoven layers of stories and experiences that can only be seen by returning and looking even deeper. When the viewer seeks to understand the story behind a piece of my work, they begin to remember a forgotten history and their part in that history.
My hope and ultimate goal as an artist is to inspire viewers to open their eyes to what is really happening in our world, so they in turn can find the valor and compassion to be a voice for the oppressed, discarded and forgotten.