My work investigates identity, memory, and the emotional weight carried within Black presence. Through figurative painting, I explore how history, visibility, and cultural inheritance continue to shape contemporary experience. The figures in my work often exist between clarity and obscurity, emerging from layered environments that suggest memory, tension, displacement, and survival.

Working primarily in oil, I use complementary color relationships to construct psychological and emotional movement within the image. My practice moves across the color wheel, allowing the figure and background to interact through contrast, imbalance, and visual tension. Color functions not only as atmosphere, but as a structural language that shapes the emotional and symbolic condition of the work.

Displacement is central to my process. Through shifts in tone, form, and spatial treatment, I create figures that appear suspended between presence and fragmentation. These distortions reflect the instability of memory and the layered realities tied to identity, culture, and perception.

After years of commission-based practice, I redirected my focus toward developing a more personal visual language rooted in observation, experimentation, and introspection. My work aims to create images that hold both confrontation and stillness, offering spaces where vulnerability, resistance, ambiguity, and recognition can exist simultaneously.