I’m Searching For Something Real

About Me: “What we care about is always around us,” a special person once told me this as we observed an Afro-Indigenous painting in my baby photo. An observation I had never made in my 28 years, but in truth, a resonance of what I’ve been pursuing. To be in harmony with the artist, innovator, and revolutionary I feel called to being.

My intent is to build holding spaces of community for black artists to grow, thrive, and translate creativity into radical expression forms. This means that I am exploring ways to allow for anyone that is holding hands with me on my own personal development as an artist and activist, to be called to integrating our experiences into their lives. I don’t want my art to stop at theory. I want my creativity to be something someone can take home. I want my artistic hub to be a community garden for visitors.

I am in pursuit of harmony. I no longer want to punish myself for needing rest, or feel guilty for being tired. I want to exist in a way my heart desires and invite those I know, strangers that are on their way to knowing, and people that may learn me post-humously to engage in the intimacy of my being as a collective growing experience. Ubuntu – “I Am because We Are.”