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 in the body where its existence otherwise might be challenged.
I merge the personal and collective memory to explore the cultural duality of the physical and inner worlds. The colorful imagined archetypes I paint act as a way to see the potential without external anxieties that influence how we think about ourselves, as a sense of safety and protection for the interior life of a body. Allowing space to use imagination and shared personal experiences to fill the ambiguity in the paintings, escaping some of the binaries that come with limiting representations.
