My interdisciplinary practice considers how place shapes identity and what happens when our relationship to place is disrupted. Working across painting, sculpture, and installation, I approach land, memory, family, and material as forms of living archive—sites where histories accumulate, disappear, resurface, and are continually remade.

New Orleans, where I was born and raised, has long served as both subject and methodology within my work. My displacement following Hurricane Katrina shaped my understanding of home not simply as a location, but as something carried through memory, family, ritual, landscape, and material. I draw from personal and familial histories alongside broader histories of the African Diaspora, allowing intimate experience and collective history to occupy the same space.

My material language often begins with things that already hold histories: earth, water, maps, architectural materials, house paint, found objects, and materials connected to specific places. Through layering, accumulation, sanding, scraping, concealment, and removal, I approach memory as both additive and reductive—something continually built, eroded, recovered, and transformed.

Increasingly, landscape has become a way of examining these relationships. Maps, waterways, land formations, and accumulated surfaces allow me to consider place not as a passive backdrop to history, but as an active participant in it. Across the work, I ask how we locate home after displacement, how place continues to live within us after we leave, and what we carry forward.