Spaces Between

   Be it the valley that exists between the peaks or the infinite space that lies next to a bubbling proton, this is where my most recent exploration has taken me. I am curious about those spaces that exist regardless of scale or proprtion. These spaces  contain a vast aray of detail, structure and atmosphere. This body of work aspires to illustrate these atmospheres and capture their complexity. The paintings are multidimensional and layered with tissue trying to illustrate the overlapping of every moment that has passed.

Immigration Debacle

The Immigration Debacle: Are the waters parting or crashing in?

A country without borders is no country, but the inhumane conduct of our nation’s current assault on illegal and legal immigration and asylum seekers, particularly innocent children, is a shameful episode in our nation’s history. We are, or should be, better than this.

The Partings of the Seas

I was contemplating how powerful and inspiring the story of the Exodus has been to so many different peoples, in so many different times and places.  The Midrash on the Exodus, rabbinic "fan fiction," so to speak, says that when the sea parted, every body of water in the world parted as well.  Here, the Seas part for
Moses and Miriam leading the Israelites,
Harriet Tubman leading the Underground Railroad,
Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr. leading the Montgomery Bus Boycott

Inheritance of White Silence

“[White people] are, in effect, still trapped in a history which they do not understand and until they understand it, they cannot be released from it.” - James Baldwin.

In this project, based on my own 3 year (and lifelong) process of reflection and conversation, I am excavating the ways in which I as a white person am complicit in the system of white supremacy through internalized psychological and behavioral patterns. In Inheritance of White Silence, I embroidered a set of white linen napkins from my grandmother with symptoms of internalized white superiority.

Chroma

Chroma is an ongoing collaboration between myself and Oakland Artist Lisa Solomon. We crowd source small colorful objects and arrange them by color.
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