I am a language-based, multidisciplinary artist whose work ranges from reimagining ancestral narratives to investigations of habitual life. Through poems, language-diagrams, and mixed media weavings, I explore how narratives shape and are shaped by cultural norms. My projects attempt to disrupt these norms as a way of disrupting white supremacy, especially relative to family histories and storytelling.
My mixed media works on paper combine language with familiar visual forms that suggest sequences or narratives, like weavings, squares, flow charts, diagrams, maps, rivers and trees. By creating works that emerge from processes and materials exploring storytelling in everyday life, I aim to offer new and strange strategies for material, emotional, intellectual and creative survival. Imbued with a sense of humor and sadness, my work points to the possibility of thriving despite the disembodied, frenetic, neoliberal demand for productivity. While drawing on routines and constraints specific to my life and history, I hope the audience can reflect on the subversive, transformative potential that can emerge from even the most laborious and banal activities of their daily lives.