Self-reflection is intrinsic to my art practice.

Articulating from a personal lens, I commonly operate within the realm of self-portraiture. In this modality, I aim to illuminate the dissociative qualities of self-examination while also seeing this mode of figuration as a space for empathy and a tool for personal reclamation and autonomy. My practice meditates on the difficulty in distinguishing between which experiences inform, rather than define, our sense of self. Through exploring this dialogical space, my practice serves as a reflective pathway to questioning our capacities for healing, cultivating, and nurturing individual and collective narratives and identities.

Using personal and family photographic archives and anecdotes as source material, I give space to the reality of lived experiences in the tropics, as they exist within fabrications of paradise. Employing the aesthetics of Junkanoo through collage, I layer paradisiacal visual motifs with culturally specific materials and ecological imagery, to craft compositions highlighting moments of the mundane with surrealism. The resulting texturally dense images complicate the widely celebrated natural landscape of the Bahamas, underscoring that idyllic environments hold a more visceral truth beyond the touristic gaze.