‘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
garden
“Armor in the Form of Ego Preservation”
The following is an excerpt from my upcoming body of work.
“By identity, I have to deal with a lot of discomfort. And by system design, I deal with disproportionately more discomfort. All this discomfort, all this oppression, suppression, and degradation—and I still don’t have armor that preserves what separates me from you.
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