Memories, 2011 (I)  is a collection of nostalgic keepsakes from a previous period in time that embodies the quintessence of what living in Baltimore City (and overall Maryland) is like no matter the era. It carries remnants of a life existing and navigating spaces, while linking these same spaces and everyday life/fleeting moments across time. Through visual observation, each photo captures ephemeral moments, even if subjects noticed or acknowledged the presence of the camera. Taken in 2011, a realization of the lives of each person captured are 14+ years older; their younger selves frozen in time in images comprising the memory of who they once were and another version of their lives once lived. These collection of images represent the heart of the city (and Maryland as a whole), along with the everyday people that inhabit(ed) the landscape they knew/know as their home. 

In The Universe Knows Her Name, Ebony explores perception, interiority, and the body’s relationship to light and space. These photographs were created by positioning the camera above the artist as she lay on her back with her hands extended toward a television screen displaying cosmic imagery. The final images were rotated 180 degrees; additionally, some images were horizontally mirrored. The images produced an optical illusion in which the figure appears upright and suspended, as if floating toward the illuminated screen. In subsequent variations, light is refracted through prisms and layered across the face, further bending orientation and dissolving the boundary between body and atmosphere. The rotation becomes not only spatial but perceptual, destabilizing gravity while maintaining stillness.

By reorienting the frame, the work disrupts spatial logic while remaining grounded in a lived domestic environment. The bedroom becomes both physical setting and psychological landscape. Blending documentary presence with surreal abstraction, Ebony uses light, shadow, and stillness to suggest ascent without spectacle. The cosmos functions as both image and atmosphere, evoking interior expansiveness within an ordinary room.