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the adventures of the black girl in her search for god_____ this project exists as a line of questioning into indigenous and ancestral means of accessing knowledge and power through our connection to the universe_____________ along this visual and conceptual journey, we witness the sustained effort to excavate Black Power from the eternal past, from behind the closed eye and beyond the locked door___________________________________________ access 'catalogue' to view painting and mixed media, photography, writings, installation, performance, and ritual works.

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I’m so excited to be part of PRIZM again this year! Talented artists show up to share, build, and celebrate with support and guidance from curators Mikhaile Solomon, William Cordova and the Aftab Committee. 

Come out to sync with the global dialogue of afro-diasporic and indigenous art, be a part of the vision for our enriching and complete evolution into the future. 

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‘Guede for One Nation (Under God)’. Mixed media on canvas. Approx. 48″x48″. 2017.

On display Dec 6 - Dec 17 at PRIZM art fair Miami Beach. Press Preview Just days away!

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‘Traveler’. Mixed media on canvas. 48″x48″. 2017.

On display Dec 6 - Dec 17 at PRIZM art fair! Press Preview just days away

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‘Guede for one nation (under God)’ 

What is resistance? What can we do? How can we be? This was always Trump’s America.

To those who are shocked and disoriented, to those who feel as if you walked outside, saw a pair of headlights flash at you, got into your uber, and woke up with your forehead bleeding chained to a basement wall -

This was ALWAYS Trump’s America.

To those who write in journals things for no one to read - what is resistance? Working for an answer. Building a ladder to a new world. Charting the landscape of our way out. Our way Back. Where can our people find the strength? We search for the wellspring.

To me, fighting back mean struggling to define the methods by which we will envision a new way of life, a way forward for the minds an souls of us all. In order to do what we have never done, we have to become what we have never been. In order to do what he HAVE done before, we have to remember what and who we have been.

Activating blood memories of the distant past, rising from chaos into what our nation and our future MUST be.

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Still from video/Performance “Ghede for One Nation (Under God)”

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That thing you feel creeping up around you like rising floodwaters. At your ankles and your calves, your thighs. Rising up your spine, past your breast. Around your neck and finally right up to your chin, ready to overtake you. That thing you feel is freedom. Freedom is thick like honey, but you have to breathe it in. Like a newborn's lungs bursting open for the first time, breathe in the freedom   

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