sequoia i, i, & iii, 2025
handmade recycled paper collage
8x10
in the trees
jo on film 2025
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Artist Sees Themself for the First Time, 2025 oil on canvas
natural, hand dyed canvas book cover for hand-bound book. yellow like the sun.
in solidarity with the former black workers of a beloved bookstore
black workers in spaces that claim to cultivate community—spaces that signal morals, ethics, and values of equality, liberation, and resistance—are often the first to recognize the emptiness of those values. it is the black worker who enters these spaces not only as a racial minority, but as a minority whose marginalization is rooted in the theft of their labor. wherever we labor, whomever we labor for, we do so with the understanding that the only reason we must do so is because reparations have never been made. we labor with debt owed to us.
Read MoreExcerpt from Garden: On Knowing
‘Garden’ is a painting I made in 2025 as part of a body of work titled ‘Fruit, Garden & Altar’. ‘Fruit, Garden & Altar’
Read Morejo in green, 2025
colored pencil on colored paper
jo in blue, 2025
paper collage
iterations 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
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“This poem was an intentional declaration to set my life back into motion before i turned 30. This is a milestone that meanS something—not the years behind me, but the one coming up—that, i had control over because i couldn’t do anything about the years behind me. So the one right in front of me i decided was going to be different. I stripped and went into the wilderness to make it so. ‘LET ME’ is a command. I commanded - demanded that i become the subject and i did.”
Let Me Be the Subject, 2025
Digital/paper collage with poem