Kitchen Table Series

Weems devoted a small segment of her daily life to taking a photograph of herself in her kitchen. The book documents her relationships with her lover, her family (her daughter, especially), and friends. It provides an important view into the life of an African-American woman, a demographic often ignored and woefully underrepresented in architecture. Additionally, when placed in the context of the role of female black labor, this text becomes more influential to the understanding of spatializing blackness.