Artist Statement: Claudia Alick’s “Black Woman Walking” was her first animation. She knew that she wanted to have a black woman walking and changing into different Black women. Claudia Alick’s piece is an invitation to contemplate the Black Woman Walking and choose one that speaks to you.

Video Animation

Process Statement: Claudia Alick had begun painting but was losing function in her hands. She loved painting but also couldn’t stand at her canvas. She began exploring artificial intelligence platforms to explore their ethical impacts on cultural producing. She quickly began discovering applications for disability accessibility. This project was an early exercise to see what the tools were capable of. She had been making fanart of Bill Potts from Dr. Who. She took one of the images and replicated it hundreds of times and threw the results into a video editing app. She used a few filters, played with timing and added a music track. She deleted the original images. Claudia has no future plans for this project.