And May She Know the Sweetness of Life: A Christening, (2023) Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery
Public Event, Participatory Performance, Sculpture
Gooseberry, coconut jelly, local salt, guava, egg, fresh almonds, blessed water, abalone.
Eggplant Planet, 2023
Sculpture
Harissa spiced arrabiata sky, honey goat cheese starlets, floating spinach disks, flying saucer.
Black Matriarchy, 2021
Photo Series
This work is a rectification of the narrative, mythology, and power of Black women and directly connects to my proposed project as this work serves as an early investigation into the soft rebellions that Black women spearheaded.
Black Food Futurism and the Taste of Revolution, 2022 University of Southern California
Participatory Performance, Public Workshop
Lemon, bitter chocolate, lime, grapefruit, synsepalum dulcificum berry, edible sculpture tablescapes
In this piece I invite participants to hack their taste buds and expand their pallets to explore new ways to utilize our senses for imagining a new future. By shifting our perception and interrogating our taste memory, we are able to shift our understanding of what’s possible in this world. Inspired by the work of Toni Morrison’s Cooking Out, Samin Nosrat’s Salt Fat Acid Heat and Vertamae Smart Grosvenor,’s Vibration Cooking: Notes from a Gullah Geechee Girl this work seeks to reframe scents, tastes, flavors, and textures as powerful agents for understanding our individual and collective unfolding.
Untitled (The Black Joy Wine Project), 2022 - In Progress
Performance, Video
There Are Black Queer Folks in the Future, Baby 2016 is a series of paintings that speaks to the relationship of the Black Queer gendered body living amidst power and identity in America. I grew up as a young Black queer woman in Boston, the cradle of America, squinting through internalized and external oppression to try to imagine a future with me in it -- a future where I could be seen and valued. Since I couldn’t see it, I’ve tried to create it. As someone predisposed with macular degeneration, my eyesight has an expiration date. I’m constantly thinking about how to explore identity beyond physical sight and the ways that technology may be influencing our senses. How can we begin to understand ourselves and each other on an energetic and cellular level? How can we mold visions of ourselves even when the world doesn’t see us? This piece serves as an intense interrogation of my self, my life currently, and the futurity I hope all Black Queer people could see and materialize for themselves.
American Wedding (2017)
"American Wedding" is a digital art and mixed media project that explores white shame and the complexities of American history using the current trend of using former slave plantations as wedding venues. This project is currently a work in progress and ultimately seeks to disrupt this space using social media hashtags and search engine optimizations. Check back frequently to watch this project unfold.