Grandmas Hands
(2025)
This collage combines 1,500 red acrylic nails, found fabric, and layered text to honor Black matriarchal lineage. Centered around my grandmother, the work reclaims red as a sacred symbol of bloodline, divinity, and inheritance.
Pressure, Press-Her, Press On (2025)
These resin sculptures depict five hands ranging from ages seven to eighty six, with colors gradually lightening across generations. Exploring the symbolism of red acrylic nails in Black girlhood and womanhood, the work reflects the adultification of young Black girls and the growing invisibility of older Black women.
Da Pearly Gate
(2024)
This installation reflects on the loss of names during slavery and the ways Black families reclaim lineage through memory, gathering, and celebration. Using family reunion t-shirts submitted by community members, Da Pearly Gate transforms everyday garments into vessels of remembrance, reimagining the gates of the afterlife through a Southern communal lens.
Photo By Lauryn Lawrence
2024 | LIBERTY CITY, MIAMI
Collection
Plate
This installation explores the material culture of mourning within Southern Black and Caribbean lineages. By recontextualizing funeral programs and memorial objects found in South Florida homes, the work creates a sacred space for the preservation of everyday histories that often bypass traditional museum archives.
Materiality plays a central role, utilizing reclaimed vernacular architecture elements and family photographs. These objects serve as vessels for memory, ritual, and the ongoing maintenance of heritage across generations and migrations.
Through a lens of care and rigor, 'The Homegoing Archive' honors the beauty held within grief, centering community stories of survival and Southern Black excellence.
ARTIST STATEMENT
Some histories live in museums. Others live in photo albums and plastic bins under beds. I am drawn to these quieter records, the ones that hold the everyday traces of people’s lives long after they are gone.
I am a multidisciplinary artist working with installation, sculpture, textiles, and sound to explore mourning and the preservation of Black Southern and Caribbean histories. I am especially drawn to the history that lives in everyday materials. The mundane often carries the clearest record of who people were and how they were loved.
Much of my work comes from Black homes and community spaces. These materials carry traces of family gatherings, church services, and moments of remembrance. Working with Black American textiles and adornments, I transform them into altar inspired installations that serve as offerings to the people and traditions that shaped our communities. Sometimes these altars exist as small, intimate works, and other times they expand into larger public installations.
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