Boxes is a series of sculptural works made from repurposed and custom boxes, new and archival photography, and other found materials. The boxes function as a kind of self-portraiture, sometimes literal, where I appear in multiple forms, and sometimes more figurative. The works tell stories from my experiences, which encompass growing up Black in Idaho, childhood traumas, addiction, medication and healing, cultural isolation, and all the things. 

In The Lonely Girl series, I use family photographs to express my feelings of isolation from family and peers as a black child in a white community. I use multiple images of myself among pill bottles and iridescent plastic landscapes to articulate the freedom of getting depression and anxiety under control in the More Medication Please works. These pieces describe this euphoria, but also portray my tendency toward addictive behavior. In Emergence, I collage my self-portraits, in some cases with my writing projected onto my nude body, into landscapes at monumental scale as a way of inserting myself into the world.

In Hold Me Tight, two works made during the Black Lives Matter uprising, I use found imagery and self-portraits to depict the emotional turmoil of living with the violence and brutality that affects Black lives every day, and the particular horror of children bearing witness to these conditions.