Description

Watch the video HERE. I create sacred environments thorough mixed-media installation, sound collage, and ritual performance. Honoring and affirming the ancestral medicines that live in Black culture, Black bodies, and Black communities is at the heart of my work. Rooted in ritual, study and play: I create portals out of sound, textile, paint, wood, wire and recycled materials. I employ history to help tell more complex and complete stories of resilience and self-definition. Informed by my Black American and Jewish ancestry, I explore ideas through the lens of metaphysics, spirituality, and Afrofuturism. I build spaces that cultivate deep listening and personal reflection; and lift up a cosmology of liberation; complicating flattened histories of oppression, and creating space for affirmative celebration and re-definition. Through meditative soundscapes, vivid color, imagery and texture, I create pathways to healing the harms of racialized marginalization and erasure. My process is iterative and holistic. I focus on what ideas and images emerge through listening with my mind, body, heart, and spirit. Manifesting as dance, playlists, zines, weaving, painting, singing to trees and writing dreams; I play in big and small ways to explore the creative themes that are calling to me. I engage friends, family, and creative community in conversation through story circles, interviews, and facilitated gatherings. I value collaboration with community-based organizations and cultural workers, offering my work and practice as a resource for culturally-relevant wellness and community resilience. I am currently cultivating a body of work called Black Fugitive Folklore, a series of installations, artifacts, and activations that honor Black ancestors who practiced fugitivity and marronage, and invites their lived experiences, and embodied knowledge to inform current movements for abolition and Black liberation.