The Ashen Landscape In Tulsa, acrylic and ink on wood, 12" x 12", 2023, is one of a 4 part series of paintings on the Tulsa, Oklahoma Race Riot of 1921. The lives were loss, lives were disrupted, and the landscape was scared from raging fires, and explosives forever reminding the world of the price of hatred and racism.

Several Native American tribes have fashioned a dress by tearing pieces of cloth into squares and rectangles and sewing them together. They called them tear dresses. My painting uses the phrase "Tear" Dress to pay homage to the many Native American women who have gone missing. Tear (as in to rip) becomes Tear ( as to shed a tear). Acrylic on canvas, 24" x 30", 2023.

We came to this country stacked, fitted, and chained in the bottoms of ships. We have since been caged and shackled in prison cells, and stacked in blighted urban housing projects. We have been cramped and fitted in under- resourced and overcrowded schools, but “still we rise” and stand out, and excel. Stacked and Fitted, acrylic and ink on canvas, 60" x 40" (framed), 2022

A Strange and Bitter Fruit is a painting that reflects the inhumanity of lynching. The title of the work is a line from the song, Strange Fruit, by Baltimore Singer, Billie Holliday. She experienced the brunt of racism and racists traveling through the Southern States. Her experiences are not that dissimilar to what Black people continue to experience today including the heinous act of lynching. Racism impacts my daily life and while I paint hope into all of my work, it is done with a heavy dose of skepticism. Acrylic and ink on canvas, 24" x 24", 2023

When we reflect on the trauma of slavery, we think mostly of those individuals ripped from their families and their homelands, but we must mourn as much for those left behind to grieve. The Ultimate Sorrow, acrylic on canvas, 30" x 40", 2022

George Floyd called for his Mother with his last breath. With all my heart, I hope she found comfort in knowing his last thoughts were of her. Acrylic and ink on canvas, 30"w x 40"h, 2020.

The first but far from the last ship to harbor the stolen cargo of my Ancestors sequestered in its wooden, seafaring, belly. Twenty Aboard the White Lion, acrylic on linen canvas, 48" x 50", 2020.

Lynching is the most heinous act of inhumanity that has been perpetrated on people of color in this country. There are 4,743 lynchings recorded, but we all know that there have been many, many more. The painting 4,743 Recorded is acrylic on canvas, 36" x 36", 2022

Collateral Impact, Acrylic on canvas board, 24"h x 30"w framed, 18"h x 24"w image, 2024. The results of adversity is not just collateral damage, but positive impact as innovative and problem solving strategies and collaborations are accelerated. We have entered a period of opportunity for enhanced social impact. I hope we rise to the occasion.

A tribe to my Native American heritage. Indigenous, Acrylic on canvas, 36"x36", 2021