About

I build and dissect fantastical narratives, spaces, and autonomous avatars for women of color, specifically women of the African diaspora, using themes of fragmented memory, mutation, mythology, cosmology, religion, spirituality, and the phantasmal. The manifestation of these avatars and narratives shapeshifts across mediums, originating as prose-poetry texts, mixed media collages, and experimental performance pieces. I draw from the pre-colonial Ifá spiritual practice of Nigeria (specifically Egun, the collective spirit of all the ancestors in a person’s lineage), role-playing video games centered around character design/open-world access, and archetypes in Christianity and Greco-Roman mythology serve as additional inspirations. I take from these elements to form — literal and figurative —  exquisite corpses that center black women reclaiming power from positions of self-determination while defying the rules of borders, of space, and of time. These space-bending stars, avatars – my angels, represent the total freedom accessed by evolving past powers that seek to constrain ideal physical, spiritual, and emotional states – uninhibited evolution as a survival mechanism in the face of inevitable change.