About the Artist

My work explores the ways memory, history, and material culture shape identity across generations. Working primarily in painting, I investigate the stories carried through color, particularly natural pigments such as indigo, as both artistic medium and historical archive.

My current practice examines the legacy of indigo, red ochre, and clay pigments within the African diaspora-their beauty, innovation, and exploitation. Through research into natural pigment production, historical trade, and Black cultural traditions, I use painting as a way to reconnect with knowledge that has often been overlooked or separated from its origins. The physical act of grinding pigment, mixing paint, and building surfaces becomes part of the work itself, honoring craftsmanship as both process and remembrance.

My paintings create space for conversation, reflection, and discovery. They invite viewers to consider inheritance, resilience, and the quiet ways culture survives while offering new perspectives on the histories embedded within color, material, and making.

As a self-taught artist, I approach each body of work through research, experimentation, and making. My practice exists at the intersection of contemporary painting, historical inquiry, and material exploration, inviting viewers to consider not only what we remember, but how those memories are preserved through the objects we create and the colors we choose to carry forward.