under, references the Haitian phrase “anba dlo”, which translates to “under the waters”. This concept refers to the water separating the living from the dead, the barrier between the two worlds, and the watery passage from life to death.

The exhibition will consist of photo documentation of a large scale earth drawing in which holes are placed in the earth and water is inserted into them. A small scale version of this piece will be recreated in the gallery. The ephemerality of the artist’s body will also be explored in a photo installation in which the artist portrays the death spots of the body in fifty snapshots. The last work will be a participatory piece entitled, nlangu. In traditional Kongo cosmology, the lands of the living and dead are separated by a horizontal line referred to as “nlangu”, or “separated by water.” Viewers are invited to place an item, photo, or memorabilia representing themselves on one side and memorabilia of the dead on the converse side.

Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud is a Chicago based artist graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in Visual and Critical Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has curated and participated in group exhibitions at El Museo Francisco Oller y Diego Rivera, Buffalo, New York, Community Artists Collective, Houston, Texas, and Body Builder and Sportsman, Chicago, Illinois. She will participate in an upcoming group exhibition at Galeria Tinta Roja in fall 2004. She utilizes various methods of mark-making and ritual to record the actions of the body . She is currently recording breath, heart rhythms, and other internal economies of the body. Works can be viewed online at www.artic.edu/~nmcclo and www.polvo.org. under will be Mccloud’s first solo exhibition.