art 

As a dancer and performing artist storytelling has always been at the core of my life’s work and embedded in my artistry.  Working with digital photography, mixed media & performative art I'm able to capture moments that allow me to freeze a subject in time.  I’m most drawn to photographing and showcasing people of color to highlight and narrate the stories of individuals who shape our global culture but often don’t get credited for their cultural contributions.  I love being able to capture these provocative images and ideals of people of color, and in doing so I feel it allows us, the black community a way to take back our power and to frame us as we see ourselves and not how history has so often inaccurately depicted us.

 

Routinely the writers of history falsely frame us as being a defeated people, lazy, savage or only seen as the disenfranchised and over sexualized.  My belief is that a skewed one-sided lens narrative does not capture the full scope of a person much less a people.  We have to have a hand in writing our own narrative, and art is a universal language that allows that message to reach all people no matter who you are or where you’re from, or what language you speak. I want to tell our story, the good, the bad and the ugly.  I want to tell our story with sincere honesty while framing it as an immersive human experience and not from the lens of a spectator but from the lens of the people living it.