Artist Statement

I am an interdisciplinary social practice spiritual artist and cultural preservationist who curates ecosomatic healing experiences through Afro-Indigenous communal participatory rituals. Nature is both my canvas and studio. Sacred collective ceremonies are my paint brush. And the people are my collaborators. My creative labor inspires folx to decolonize space and indigenize their relationship to the land as spiritual autonomy, reclamation, and reparation. Bringing people back to their bodies in relationship to natural spaces is a rematriation of ancestral culture, values and memories. This is the medicine. This is the art.

Art is inherently a spiritual practice. The power to dream and pull down a vision into the material world is nothing less than the embodiment of spirit. Thus, my indigenous spiritual customs are my artistic praxis and political resistance. If spirituality is for the people, intuitively, the art belongs to the people. 

Publicly engaging in collective ancestral ceremonies under an oppressive white delusional cult culture is a revolutionary act. It pushes against the westernized status quo which demonizes traditional sacred practices. Openly standing in our collective power, boldly reclaiming our birthright in the face of targeted political repression is a social art that takes courage, vision, and radical love.

I am a journeywoman, a critically curious student whose feet have touched many lands in exploration of diverse indigenous cosmogonies –a relentless tugging, an inquisitive thirst, at best, only quenched by multifaceted community immersions. My travels are learning by osmosis. While most travel to get away, I travel to get in.

Destined as a daughter of many waters–blood of Jamaica and Puerto Rico islands, flesh of the Florida swamps, and bone of the Philly concrete–my poly-lineage, compounded with my initiations into the traditions of Palo Briyumba and Ashanti Akom, seamlessly guide how I blend African, Black, and Indigenous cultural, ancestral, and historical themes. Bridging geographies and cultures, my travels as a journeywoman allows me to relearn how to cultivate and nurture belonging to one another, and equips me with the tools to reintroduce that same medicine back to the diaspora, reimagining healing as reparation. My work serves as the mouth of a devoted griot supplicating to the rememberings of our ancestors. 

Personifying liberatory pedagogy, I curate community centered and accessible spaces that traverse through indigenous culture traditions and educate on lineage eco-philosophies and sacred ecologies by way of collective public rituals. Through sacred altar installations, photography, prose, and poetry, I immortalize the community participatory art–storytelling that imagines time and space, materializes the ephemeral, and bears witness to the work. My latest project, Mirrored Reflections, is enshrined as a forthcoming photography book and installation as a solo exhibition.

As an independent publisher, I hold a Master of Science in Education degree in Reading, Writing, and Literacy from the University of Pennsylvania and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism from Kutztown University.