I am interested in representing the experience of what it means to take up space in a racialized body. My practice allows safety and celebration of the body, where its existence otherwise might be undermined by a set of social experiences. The painted, contorted figures act as the interior life of a body, set in contemporary quotidian environments that reference art history and consumer culture and represent a merging of personal and collective memories.

The imagined archetypes depicted in contemporary scenes examine the sense of self authenticity to observe the potential without external anxieties influencing how we perceive ourselves. They allow space to explore imagination and a sense of self-constructed imagery to fill the ambiguity in the paintings, escaping some of the binaries that come with limiting representations.