Hattie Mae Williams-TTB

I am a compassionate interdisciplinary artist who is recalling rituals, landscapes, and common felt interests through Sites Specific Consciousness. I am the daughter of Florence Marie Berg (best known as Flossie) and Henry Lee Williams. I am the namesake of my beautiful, strong Grandmother who was born in Rochelle, Georgia where the cotton fields slow dance behind her house, a small juke joint buzzes with cousins, Bud Light, and one old pool table. My creative practice has always been heavily influenced by community and the innate need to connect with others. Through multiple artistic mediums I have made a commitment to telling truths and taking risks. I strive to encourage others to create, dance, write, lead and intrinsically change oppressive, racist, patriarchal, capitalist power structures. This is my hope to re-thread our communities and survive this crazy world.

Reconnecting themes related to human conditions and feelings that are inherent and innate to all people is a constant web I try to navigate in; yet social, racial, cultural and economic divides along with institutional racist structures have acted to further remove us from these felt emotions and community connections. This disconnect has paralyzed the humanity muscle in many of us. My philosophy looks at Sites Specific Consciousness (a term I conceived & a distinction from site specific) as a component of my work’s totality. I have linked interrelationships between the Mind, Body, and Spirit as part of my process when creating. The Mind is the politics and process that takes place in choreographing the interaction. The Body is the site and history of the place along with its current use. The Spirit is the community within the space along with the culture and energetic vibration that has lived in the site and will remain long after the work is resolved. What is the internal and external existence of the site we enter? How can we remain aware of our responsibility to move ethically and consciously within these environments and communities? 

The effort to live within a scope where a practice of healing through the arts is my continued ritual, my ever evolving process within my creations and teachings. I take on the role of storyteller and truth seeker to heal and inspire others to be wild.