artist statement
I draw to locate myself in memory, space, and reclamation. My work is rooted in an investigation of how built environments and material culture shape our inner lives—especially for those whose stories have been omitted, obscured, or compressed by dominant spatial narratives. Through drawing, sculpture, textile compositions, and collaborative design, I craft soft architectures that embody memory, hold ritual, and invite reflection. These forms often begin with a thread, a mark, or a pattern—humble in scale but expansive in meaning.
Much of my practice centers on Black material culture, feminist approaches to making, and the spatial consequences of generational trauma and resilience. I am drawn to craft as a language of both precision and improvisation, where a repeated line or stitch can carry the weight of personal loss, cultural survival, or ancestral joy. I use hand-drawn motifs, stitched diagrams, layered textiles, and abstract renderings to reframe how we archive place, emotion, and experience. These elements speak to the tension between what is visible and what is felt, what is structured and what is intuitive.
I am particularly interested in the domestic and the ceremonial, the in-between spaces where daily life becomes sacred. Whether I am mapping the threads of a neighborhood procession, constructing a textile block that echoes inherited florals, or documenting collective acts of remembrance, my goal is to create work that honors stillness, sensory memory, and community wisdom. In these quiet yet intentional forms, I explore how aesthetics can nurture healing, particularly for those who have had to navigate systems of erasure, displacement, or control.
Through Kin Lore—my design studio focused on cultural storytelling and soft monumentality—I collaborate with communities, clients, and students to explore how gathering, care, and ornamentation are essential to both space and self. I view each tablescape, tapestry, or visual field as a site of possibility—a space to pause, remember, and reimagine.
My work resists the urge to resolve or simplify. Instead, it embraces the layered, the worn, the speculative. It dwells in micro-scapes, symbolic repetition, and abstracted figuration to draw attention to the power of presence. In doing so, I hope to make space for beauty and complexity to coexist—and for design to become a quiet, persistent act of affirmation.