Pious Little Thing,
2025
In Pious Little Thing, a figure is pictured from below in a posture that suggests both hesitation and alertness. Saturated reds and purples settle across the body, heightening the tension of the moment without tipping into dramatization. The work was made during a period of geographic and artistic transition, a shift that subtly informs the unsettled structure of the scene. Spatial contours warp slightly, echoing the unfamiliar terrain the artist was learning to navigate. Williams holds the composition steady despite this instability, focusing on how presence adjusts under pressure. The result is an image that captures transition not as spectacle but as a quiet recalibration of space, body, and attention.
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Artwork is printed edge-to-edge. No white borders or framing are included.
Tyler Cala Williams (b. Trenton, New Jersey) is an American artist based between New York and Savannah. A graduate of Parsons, The New School (BFA Photography, 2020), Williams creates surreal self-portraiture and imagery charged by their community and culture, through using digital software like Photoshop to address appropriation in Western traditional art movements and the nuances of the subjugated Black.
Williams describes their practice as a process of remembering: memories that, like photographs, are both truth and construction. In their words, “I believe the surreal scenes I create are like the act of remembering. It looks far removed from reality because memories are never really fully truths. I believe memories are tricky and are like photos in their reliability. They are both representations of something. So for me, the dreamlike quality of my work is from my memories taking new forms.
