As a painter, my conceptual curiosity is driven by archetypes from oral stories and how they can exist outside of their original context. Through the creation of worlds where fixtures from Black American folklore exist alongside ideas surrounding my own contentious relationship with religion, the complexity of familial relationships, and womanist perspectives, new and irregular narratives emerge. Adding familiar elements like the Hoodoo practitioner, the trickster figure known as Br’er Rabbit, mojo bags, and biblical women, I experiment with creating new allegorical stories. As watercolor has been heavily associated with illustration, it is the most exciting painting medium to explore, especially with its ability to be a reductive medium on both paper and quilted canvas. To be able to add and take away pigment at will helps to further advance my ideas in a non-linear structure.