a sky you can't see (in progress) is an exhibition of an ongoing body of work that emerges from a year of immersive research into hooded garments across time, geography, cultures, and spiritual traditions. In an unfinished display of this work, Nastassja intimately traces the path from formal research to a deeply personal journey unfolding layers of her family history in tandem with an exploration of material identity. 

At the heart of the project are six commanding figures, with each one guiding the project’s six themes: the church, respectability politics, reclamation, matriarchy and our Grandmothers, the perception of Black masculinity, and girlhood. Through a selection of notes, sketches, material samples, source references, family photos and in-progress felted portraits, this work questions political, spiritual, and aesthetic dimensions of the hooded form through a lens of Black experiences. Nastassja investigates the hood not only as an object, but as a symbol—of concealment, protection, identity, erasure, memory, ritual and resistance.

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