an intimate distance
2025, hand-dyed loc installation

fly: surrender to the air & ride it
2025, yarn, spinning fiber, acrylic on canvas, and hand-dyed cotton
18 inches x 30.5 inches

"fly: surrender to the air & ride it" emerges from that tender space between fear and freedom, where creative breakthrough requires letting go. Inspired by Toni Morrison's wisdom that "If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it," this work explores what happens when the artist allows herself to be carried by process and the breakthrough that comes when fear transforms into curiosity.

The work draws from the artist's old ways of making while pushing into uncharted territory and finding liberation in intimate scale.

Expansive in spirit, here, in this in-between space, play becomes rebellion, and surrender becomes the very thing that allows flight. The work asks: What becomes possible when we stop fighting the wind and learn to ride it instead?

finding harmony in contradictions
2025, acrylic on canvas, and hand-dyed cotton
36 inches x 29 inches

"finding harmony in contradictions" embraces the paradoxes that define us—the ways we can be both protective and open, expanding and contained, honoring tradition while reaching toward the unknown. Inspired by Audre Lorde's wisdom that "Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat," this work celebrates tension as a creative force rather than a problem to solve.

The piece refuses easy resolution. Instead, it explores how opposing truths can coexist, how different parts of ourselves don't need to be reconciled but rather held in dynamic balance. Like breathing—an endless cycle of taking in and letting go—the work finds vitality in movement between states rather than arrival at a single destination.

This piece asks: What becomes possible when we stop trying to eliminate our contradictions and instead learn to dance with them? How do we stay afloat not by resolving tension, but by finding rhythm within it?

breathing, holding, bridging
2025. yarn, spinning fiber, thread, & hand-dyed cotton
47 inches x 72 inches
 

"breathing, holding, bridging" explores connection—the ways separate elements of our stories and layers of our identity find each other and create something greater than their individual parts. Inspired by the choice to pause and experiment during a time of needing to regain creative joy, and Jessica Ann Mitchell's reflection that different literary works by Black women writers "all knew a part of my soul, they all held pieces of me in their words," this piece embodies the profound act of bringing together elements that each carry their own essence.

The work emerges from taking time to forge connections that have long been calling for attention. Each component maintains its individual character while participating in something larger.

The rhythm suggested in the title—breathing, holding, bridging—reflects the fundamental human acts of taking in, pausing, and reaching across distance. The piece scales to what feels necessary in the moment, honoring both expansion and restraint.

This work asks: What becomes possible when we give ourselves permission to build bridges between the different parts of our experience? How do we honor individual integrity while creating entirely new forms of wholeness?

be still—it’s enough
2025. yarn, spinning fiber, hand-dyed cotton, water-based pigment inks and dyes, thread on cotton
17 inches x 37 inches

Left: balancing act
2023. yarn, spinning fiber, & hand-dyed cotton
20 inches x 114 inches

Right: finding comfort
2023. yarn, spinning fiber, & hand-dyed cotton
16 inches x 101 inches

"a thailand color story"

yarn, spinning fiber, & hand-dyed cotton

In July 2019, my journey through Bangkok and Phuket, Thailand, became an immersive color study as I photographed the vibrant world around me. I traveled with friends and was drawn to the beautiful details and exchanges surrounding me throughout our adventures. Through my lens, I captured the essence of many moments—documenting inspiring colors, patterns, shapes, compositions, elements, movement, and textures. After returning home, I found unexpected joy in organizing these photographs by color and discovering new relationships and harmonies. This weaving emerges from three photographs in that series, translating their visual language of color, texture, and shape into fiber. The piece interweaves rich golds, burnt oranges, deep greens, and bold magentas. Through this transformation from photograph to woven form, I've created a tactile memory of that journey.

“golden yellow”
2022, yarn, spinning fiber, & hand-dyed cotton
35 in x 108 in

“golden yellow"
2022, yarn, spinning fiber, & hand-dyed cotton
35 in x 108 in

“turquoise” 
2022, yarn, spinning fiber, & hand-dyed cotton
35 in x 150 in

choosing nourishment, evolving patience
2025 
water-based pigment inks and dyes, thread, blessing notes, family cloth, hand-dyed cotton.

The first quarter of this year brought new levels of burnout. This collage features three different self-portraits of the artist in repetition, documenting her journey of restoration and exhaustion. During this time, she slowed her pace, making sacrifices to honor her needs. She invested time cooking nourishing meals, maintaining a disciplined sleep routine, connecting deeply with loved ones, and embracing a gentler rhythm built on reciprocal care. Small gestures—both offered and received—became anchors during this period, reminding her that healing happens in community. Prioritizing only what actively replenished the artist and maintaining faith that everything else would unfold as it's meant to helped her find grounding during unsteady times.

choosing nourishment, evolving patience
2025 
water-based pigment inks and dyes, thread, blessing notes, family cloth, hand-dyed cotton

The first quarter of this year brought new levels of burnout. This collage features three different self-portraits of the artist in repetition, documenting her journey of restoration and exhaustion. During this time, she slowed her pace, making sacrifices to honor her needs. She invested time cooking nourishing meals, maintaining a disciplined sleep routine, connecting deeply with loved ones, and embracing a gentler rhythm built on reciprocal care. Small gestures—both offered and received—became anchors during this period, reminding her that healing happens in community. Prioritizing only what actively replenished the artist and maintaining faith that everything else would unfold as it's meant to helped her find grounding during unsteady times.

2023. Mixed Media on Cotton.
58 inches x 72 inches

Thankful for Her: Rhythms of Growth is a tribute to myself, my self-awareness, and my past self. Three self-portraits—including a 2014 me, are collaged together to create a meditation on time with self and appreciation for the rhythms of my growth. At times, through my practice, I unintentionally create artwork for the version of me that needs it on the other side—and for that, I thank my spiritual connection and ancestors. Towards the end of this piece, it became the soft, radiant, healing energy I needed while navigating emotional changes and relationship shifts. This piece honors the various journeys that I move through in solitude to evolve into new versions of myself to share with my loved ones and the world.

intimate gestures & pinky promises
digital collage on velvet
73 in x 54 in
2022

Human touch can increase feelings of trust, compassion, and generosity. Human touch can decrease feelings of fear and anxiety. "intimate gestures and pinky promises" is a visual and body movement interpretation of lessons learned from a seemingly healthy romantic relationship, being exposed as distortion and traumatic. Exploring the intimate gesture of handholding, transfer of energy, and the way we connect through hands—the collage is documentation of performance.

The collage features actual polaroids from moments in the relationship and is surrounded by authentic loving intimate gestures with myself post-relationship. The relationship with myself and understanding of myself is what made the relationship beautiful. The visual collage is reflected through words in the piece, "but you didn’t love him.”

part two: blossoming
2023. digital collage on velvet
54 in x 72 in

Part Two: Blossoming was created a year later, using self-portraits of my hands from the same photo shoot in 2021. A year later, I was drawn to poses, compositions, and colors that are more expansive, lighter, natural, expressive, and loving—representative of the place I am today in comparison. Revisting the collection of photographs. This piece embraces a new era of freedom, loving, and openness to community.