My work explores identity, disability, and Southern heritage, reimagining personal and collective histories through lived experience. As a disabled Black woman, I navigate isolation, desire, and hyper-visibility, creating spaces where vulnerability, grotesqueness, and beauty converge.

I use humor and satire to playfully subvert expectations about the critique and celebration of femininity’s spectacle. Layering pearls, frosting, glitter, and fragmented limbs, my anthropomorphic figures exaggerate and distort the body and become surrogates for my own. These tangled forms reflect the performative nature of survival while mocking the ideals of beauty.

Rooted in Southern domestic iconography, my work blends nostalgia with estrangement. Saturated colors and decadent embellishments mask underlying tensions, as humor collides with body horror and playfulness meets unsettling intimacy. By embracing contradictions, I challenge the boundaries between the grotesque and the desirable.

I resist containment, reclaiming space for identities that defy easy interpretation. In a world where opulence and decay coexist, my work offers a playful, yet pointed critique of beauty, deformity, and the absurdities of existence.