The Final Hour is a series of mixed-media textiles exploring a fictional society during a feast of celebration moments before its own destruction. The work explores this through AI rendered imagery, composed of appropriated images, digital collaging, and written descriptions. The materials used include acrylic rhinestones, glitter, poly-fil, and sand.

The work is an extension of larger themes explored in Brionne's practice, including but not limited to, ideas of migration, displacement, storytelling, and the loss and ancestral knowledge due to colonialism. Her practice, including this body of work, creates new landscapes which embody both the search for and destruction of cultural, ethnic, and social ways of being, that are inaccessible outside of imagined realms and new narrative created through my work. This body of work explores a landscape at the intersection of the desert and the water (often a stand in for Louisiana, Maryland and New Mexico) and displays a communion of dance that takes place before a catastrophe

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