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My art aims to help people construct new worlds of possibility. For the first twenty years of my life, I was taught a lot of things and questioned only a few of them. In the next twenty years of my life, I questioned everything and began to resist conformity to systems that were not designed for my benefit nor the benefit of most people.

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I came to understand that we need a just transition from a world where people and the planet are exploited and neglected. With others, I began to work toward that world. 

In addition to material deprivations, a lack of seeing what a more just world looks like and a lack of a felt connection to such a world is a limitation. Paolo Freire quoting Prof. Álvaro Vieira Pinto wrote that the “limit-situations” we face are not ‘the impassable boundaries where possibilities end, but the real boundaries where all possibilities begin; they are not ‘the frontier which separates being from nothingness, but the frontier which separates being from being more.

With my art, I hope to create windows into a world where we can be more in communion with nature and each other. I hope that my art aids real world movements for change. I engage other people, ideas, species, dreams, speculative fiction, and music toward this end. 

I am a visual artist who explores freedom as a daily practice and as a series of creative experiments. I am inspired by Angela Davis who said “I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.” I endeavor to engage in creative refusal and constructive freedom dreaming to help produce a just transition.

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How Soon You Forget / 1 of 2

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How Soon You Forget / 2 of 2

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Maroon

Desarraigo is an aquatint etching. It’s a reflection on the experience of Black people in the Americas via a portrait of one of my ancestors who was killed in New Orleans. I did this piece not long after Hurricane Katrina.
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Desarraigo

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Hurricane America

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Gorée

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Great Grandfather with Coworkers

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