Statement:

I create universes and environments that reflect opposing themes. These expansive spaces express more than one feeling at a time. My starting point is the idea of a dual identity: not being fully settled in one place or the other. Working with the idea of dual identity connotes displacement, constantly feeling out of place except in the worlds i create; both in a psychological and spatial sense, feeling like not fully belonging to one place or the other. The ritualistic component that is depicted in the movement in my backgrounds; the visual components of that very same movement and gesture is an homage to the non-linearity of the stories of the people around me as well as my own story. As of late, my work is focused on creating worlds where anything is possible. I believe it is important to make work that reminds oneself, and the larger group they are part of, of the importance of dreaming. The way I approach storytelling is rooted in a gray area where ambiguity, possibilities for stories that do not fit the trauma or joy discourse are allowed to exist while acknowledging that these stories are also valid and real; it delves into the more layered spaces in between, leaving room for a discussion about the nuanced multiplicity of our existence as Black people in the diaspora.