artistic statement 

I hold high value in cultural preservation, spiritual grounding, resilience, sankofa and lineage. These values have and continue to sculpt the way I imagine, approach and create art. With deep connections to ancestral themes and stories, I create works rooted in authentic experiences, hidden histories and personal truths. The power of experiential truth and perspective that exists in the sharing of these stories is the fuel that drives my work. When we share historical experiences and lived perspectives there exists a possibility of healing, which can potentially be a catalyst for change. I am invested in exploring the ways my artistic expressions can be used to inform and evoke emotional responses by generating sustained dialogue and allowing the work to live beyond the stage. I am aiming to create inclusive and immersive artistic experiences that honor and maintain value in the stories of African American people. 

 

My work is motivated by tradition, community, resilience, and truth-telling. It fuses abstract gestures, contemporary shapes, and New Orleans influences to create visceral movement vocabulary rooted in ancestral memory. It explores and investigates personal and historical truths, communicating life experiences of love, joy, freedom, culture and identity. My work is a celebration of the wisdom that comes from community, large gatherings, kitchen talk, front porch conversation, and hanging on street corners, as in N.O. tradition. It addresses hard conversations, the reality of socialization and the impacts of institutionalized racism. It is influenced by the values, morals and ideas my ancestors deemed as important for survival. It also challenges these ideas, interrogating conformity and identifying the contradictions that perpetuate internalized racial inferiority.