The Team

My work explores transformation, memory, and survival within the black diaspora through collage and mixed media. Central to this exploration is the butterfly, a recurring symbol that represents both fragility and endurance-an emblem of becoming. Within Black cultural history, transformation is rarely gentle, it's shaped by rupture, adaptation, and resilience. The Butterfly in my work emerges not as decoration, but as witness. I use collage as both method and metaphor. By layering fragmented imagery, textures, and materials, reflect the way's identity are assembled across time, geography, and lived experience. Disparate elements are intentionally placed in tension - historical references alongside figuration- mirroring the complexity of diasporic narratives that resist singular definitions. Mixed media allows me to honor imperfection and process.

Tears, seams, and visible joins are left intact, acknowledging that healing and transformation are ongoing rather than resolved. These surfaces hold traces of labor, echoing the inherited histories carried in Black bodies and cultural memory.

The Butterfly, often associated with freedom and beauty, is recontextualized within my work as a symbol of survival after constraint. It speaks to migration, spiritual endurance, and a quiet power of metamorphosis that occurs despite oppressive conditions. Ultimately, my work invites viewers to consider transformation not only as escape, but an act of persistence