The tableau is a liberating love letter through the lens of my Black queer utopia. Through my own language rooted in painting, I build a fictional, multidimensional world that emerges through different materials. Large scale figurative paintings point towards a vision contemplating joy, love, and turmoil expanded through staged characters and scenes. Often in these paintings, ambiguity is found in the negative space, creating distance from the viewer, similar to that between my Blackness and the Eurocentric canon of painting.

The home is a portal into a fabricated documentation of a history not yet lived. I am having a conversation with gay and queer Black men at home. I am not painting models; they are guests. Cinematic moments found within the compositions aim to establish a connection with my brothers. Motion is activated through repetition, rendering time as a malleable tool and breathing life into an evolving fiction. I sound the echoes of Black men loving Black men and meditate on potential, fantastical scenarios that render an escape as I question where fantasy can emerge from.