My work is equal parts creation and destruction. The process begins from within, where I travel to far-reaching vulnerable places in my memories from childhood and life and examine them in three dimensions on canvas. The tedious physical act of building up my pieces with layers of collected materials, paint, and cardboard mimics the emotional work I simultaneously experience as I am creating. What I have previously tried to distract myself from or avoid in life, I am confronted with on the canvas. Each work is a discovery in which I hope to unearth personal truths that also speak to the heart of human experience and vulnerability.

As this shadow work is never completely done, I often repurpose old works to carve away something new from them - which is evident in the layers of paint and materials that are ripped away to reveal more “raw” bits of canvas. I spend a lot of time in the studio delving into my family history and peeling back the layers of trauma to heal long neglected parts of myself; parts that I was told by society were off-limits; feelings I wasn’t allowed to feel as a young Black man growing up. I seek to shine a light on those intricacies of the Black experience I have encountered while exposing and speaking to universal truths and struggles we all face as humans.