Adinkra

Adinkra

I painted Adinkra in 2013, and as I am preparing text for an upcoming show I am sharing these words.  Sometimes time and distance from the work helps to crystalize a better understanding of its meaning. Adinkra – Beliefs create reality.  I painted Adinkra with a...
The Bird Without Feet

The Bird Without Feet

The Bird Without Feet (Multimedia painting, 2014) began with the contemplation of sentient living beings in the Anthropocene.  I combined images of space travel and nuclear fusion diagrams from “Cosmos” with maps of the Southern US, focusing on New Orleans, with...
Evolvulation

Evolvulation

    Sleepless night.  The tinnitus is loud and high pitched.   eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee   constant and even, never-ending.   9 years. At 2am I begin to meditate.  It is challenging to find space between the eeeeeeeeeeee I ask the sound, the...
The Moat

The Moat

The Moat The benevolent king has left the throne A madman sits in his place The moat dries up with neglect Masses are crossing, bodies pushing mud.   Stirring loose the ghosts.   Who loudly shake the rusty shackles While others bow down and cover their ears Women on...
The Cloak Wants to be Performed

The Cloak Wants to be Performed

This is the Cloak I began early this year, at that time I was calling it “Cape.”  I went to an artist’s residency in Mexico with the intention of making a fiber cocoon, in which to perform my embodiment process.  What I ended up making was a wearable...