“Through photography, digital tools and software, assemblage, and mixed-media installations, I explore these intergenerational narratives using multimedia and mixed media works, highlighting the ways family and geography carry lessons, values, and cultural wisdom forward as legacy.”

“We are part of the chain that passes our ancestral knowledge, joy, and strength from one generation to the next. We do not only inherit trauma. We inherit love, laughter, ceremony, and wisdom.”

“The image captures daily life shaped by community, labor, and resilience, reflecting my interest in diasporic spaces and personal sovereignty: the ability to claim authority over one’s body, identity, narrative, and vision.”

“It is not that I solely carry the survival and experiences of those who have come before me, but that my own survival and experiences are being woven into the tapestry of my lineage, as I am breathing and being. The journey between my birth and death marks what will become my evocation.”

“Scatter me amongst these pages / and let the paper wither away in the wind / as pieces of me disappear into nature / and I become one with earth again.”

“And if music is inherent to our being, and we are being advised to take the music seriously, take the inner song seriously, take life’s melody seriously, aren’t we being reminded that Spirit is inherent to our being? And to take Spirit seriously?”