Through painting, ceramics, craft, and woodwork, I canonize events in my own history and immortalize my ideas on intimacy and identity. My work considers the context of American and art history, alongside my personal history. I challenge traditional portraiture through subject matter and storytelling. Through a personal lens, I reexamine history and religion. My work responds to U.S. history, art history, and the rituals in my day-to-day life. It's an exploration of interaction, Catholicism, and the ritual of smoking. It's a love letter to my friends, my saints, a study in assimilation, grief, and objectification.

I prioritize oil painting as an act of reclamation, reclaiming an artistic practice that would have previously been denied to me. Through painting, I reimagine masterworks from art history with Black figures as an act of reclamation, as well as to bring forward a discussion about blackness and black identity in art and American history, or the lack thereof. I create and illustrate my own biblical and mythological stories– the calling of St. Matthew, Noah’s drunkenness, Helen with Menelaus before being brought to Paris.

With craft material and installation, I explore ideas relating to femininity and excess. I create my own personal and handheld icons, exploring commodification and commercialization. Altars dedicated to my dead lighters incorporate items associated with mortality, exhibited on wood from my garage. This work references interaction, Catholicism, family history, and a smoking habit. 

My ceramics consider the contexts of Black art during slavery in America, Black enslaved potters and artists whose work remained unattributed, lost to time. I shatter established images and reclaim forms. I make earthenware look like porcelain china.

Across all of my work, I aim to create a record of existence not only for myself, but of myself, and of those who look like me. I consider African American history, the lack of records, the stories untold, the works unattributed. My practice as a whole considers the lack of records we have of not only African American artists but African Americans as individuals.