My current body of work focuses on the ways I sense my body (physically, emotionally, spiritually) in the different environments I interact with (school, chosen homes, public etc). When viewing my work it is important to understand that my Blackness and queerness are central to the experience each piece provides.
My Blackness has been a unifying and alienating identity that cannot invisiblize. My queerness was a welcome but previously hidden companion to my Blackness that has been freed through self exploration and introspection.
The worlds I create are born from the perspective I hold, the way I am treated in the locale I interact with and the relationships I form within that locale.
Understanding that, my intersectional identity creates a specific and unique perception to be showcased. I employ my identity and lived experience to inform my creative processes. The figures within my work interact with abstract settings to serve as symbols that highlight my experiences of alienation, inner chaos, confusion, sapphic passion and guilt. These odd and off-kilter figures represent the way I feel in space and the way I am perceived by others in space. These interpersonal worlds serve as moments of perception and snapshots of emotion. The figures that I include in my pieces serve as conduits for people I interact with and the worlds we create through our relationships.
Although these worlds do not exist in objective reality, they are real and true because they represent genuine moments of lived experience, emotion and connection between my environment and I.