Artist Statement

I am an interdisciplinary artist working primarily in craft traditions, installation, video and performance. My practice explores and engages histories of the African diaspora and how they are preserved and reproduced through cultural traditions. Through themes of spirituality, bonding rituals and transformation, I conceptualize safe spaces as a necessary strategy for passing on intergenerational imagery and narratives for a people whose histories are consistently erased, misrepresented and misinterpreted. I was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. I am of Black Southern-Caribbean American heritage by way of North Carolina and Trinidad. Feeling displacement between lands, I began to search for the pieces of my African heritage that are prevalent across Afro-Caribbean, Afro-American, and West African cultures. My work is structured through personal experience, historical research, and oral traditions, with a focus on Black female subjectivity.