Healing rituals, revering nature, and remembering the divine feminine force guide my artistic and spiritual practice. I depict the feminine as creator, birth giver, wisdom speaker, and nature connector by sculpting and assembling natural materials (clay, bronze, pigments, soil, stone) and embodying the figures in films. My charge is to repopulate contemporary imagery with goddesses that embody central facets of femininity that have been forsaken as taboo: self-empowerment, shadow self, birthing, menstruating. 

 

Rooted in the movement meditation ‘qi gong’ that my father taught me,

I pull from those positions that harmonize my spirit to sculpt, collage, and embody. The postures and adornments of the figures, also come from inner vision and ancient depictions of the goddess. The mediums I sculpt with, clay and bronze, are earth elements that become energetically amplified as they alchemize. The sculptures are further activated by filmed ritual performances. 

 

I learned clay sculpture at a young age and have refined my skills at Chapman University where I earned a minor in art, and at Merritt College in taking Advance Ceramic Sculpture courses. Since 2022, I have been learning the lost-wax casting method of crafting bronze sculpture through an apprenticeship at Splady Art Studios. Raised in Oakland by a Black-American father, with Caribbean and African ancestries, and a White-French mother, I create from an understanding of a multiracial, multicultural, and spiritual humanity.