‘Garden’ is a painting I made in 2025 as part of a body of work titled ‘Fruit, Garden & Altar’. ‘Fruit, Garden & Altar’
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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
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“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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June 2020
Everyone else finally saw all I had been knowing. The plight of black people now suddenly at the forefront of everyone's mind and screens. Beyond the black squares, I saw people start to see our humanity for the first time. It led me to a deeper understanding of the social death black people have lived through for centuries. What everyone else has only just now begun to understand, I’ve known for lifetimes and generations. This abrupt reckoning gave me a series of realizations.
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