In Yakeima Simms’ current work, she uses typography and black silhouettes of black men and women to focus on the importance of their beauty and strengths. The typography used in the background states a short prose that assess to the struggles and how black people overcome their flaws and stigmas inflicted upon them. Each piece’s statement is written with the subject in mind—using their personality and facial features as her way of creating a relationship between the subject and the subject’s ‘story’. The subject in each piece are facing in profile, to show their facial features without giving away too much of their identity. The act of reading the repetitive flow of language found behind the crisp black subject, encourages the audience to gain
