What I'm Working On Currently

After spending the summer in NYC with GIbney Dance, under the guidance of choreographer and activist Jill Sigman, I began to think critically about the body as a readymade and tool for knowledge. What can I learn from my body? How can my body become a medium for speaking?

While there, I learned about the erasure of the African Burial Ground in Manhattan and the Lenape Indians from the public discourse of Wall Street. What happens when we forget those who have passed?

And what bodies get to be remembered?

I then began to explore performance art and kinetic art as I immersed myself in hoodoo and conjure practice as a form of healing to deal with the death of my father. The works you will see are explorations done over the course of several months, including my site-specific performance, Altar, which was filmed at New Hampshire Institute of Art during my third residency in Jan. 2019.

Below, you will also see some of my work, dying fabrics with rust, black beans, coffee, and red clay. The process of natural dyeing becomes a ritual of sorts, connecting to the herbs and natural environment similar to rootwork.