Violence of the Familiar
I Dreamt of My Father, Again
This body of work begins with family history and uses it to examine the effects of poverty, patriarchy, and white supremacy on daily life. It considers how these forces shape what is remembered, normalized, withheld, and passed on. The work stays close to the personal without treating the personal as separate from history.
Conditions of Possibility
Such Could I Be
Such Could I Be uses sugar as both material and symbol, tracing its relationship to enslavement, poverty, white supremacy, and the institutions that sustained their violence. Through this history, the work considers my own position within whiteness and the conditions under which its power, brutality, and inheritance become possible.
The Conditions Were Created
This body of work began as a series of illustrations examining the systemic racism, political rhetoric, and punitive policies that shaped the War on Drugs during the 1980s, while tracing those structures back to the longer histories of enslavement, extraction, and the sugar trade. It considers how systems of power have repeatedly profited from racialized labor, addiction, poverty, and social division, and how people positioned against one another can still share a deep disillusionment with the institutions governing their lives. The project culminated in a completed mural that connects these histories to the present, using sugar as both a material and symbolic thread for the ways exploitation continues to exert disproportionate control over impoverished communities.
