Artist Statement

I make art for the Black women and femmes who were told to sit still, stay quiet, and stop making a mess. My practice began as something I was shamed for: neurographic doodling on quiz sheets, café receipts, the margins of Bible pages, even the walls of my childhood bedroom. What adults called a "bad habit" was actually how I survived; a way to quiet the noise in my head and honor it at the same time.

Now, I work across painting, animation, textiles, carved text, and installation to create immersive spaces you don't just view, but enter. My visual language is built from portals, neurographic linework, vibrant pastels against Musou black voids, and symbols drawn from both inherited and invented mythologies. These voids aren't empty…they hold missing space, missing memory, missing time. They turn past shames into something beautiful.

My work centers the interior lives of Black women and femmes at the intersections of neurodivergence, queerness, motherhood, and marginalization. Through interviews, research, and intuitive translation, I transform lived experiences into Afro-surreal forms: painted portraits, story-pattern textiles, wood poems, and installations that honor our multiplicity and complexity.

Scientists say we can only perceive about 5% of the universe. My work ensures that the neuro/negro among us are also perceived: fully, tenderly, and without apology. In a world that demands legibility and control, I lean into the soft, the spectral, and the not-yet-named. My work is a visual language for those of us who have always been told we're too much and not enough at the same time.