Headlands Center for the Arts

Artist Statement

My work engages conjure, grounded in spiritual and cultural traditions, as a framework for visualizing hidden narratives. Drawing on my Caribbean and American heritage, I explore themes of absence, the elusive body, and the transformative effects of migration. In my photographs, I incorporate fabric, collage, and archival materials to challenge spatial conventions, evoke presence, and suggest liminality. My aim is to create images that reveal spaces where body and place exist in interim, collapsed, and permeable states. I am interested in reconsidering boundaries and connections within a broader narrative of in-betweenness.

While at Headlands

While at Headlands, I plan to expand my practice by exploring new pathways of material experimentation, with the objective of developing three-dimensional sculptures and a new photographic series that directly address the themes of liminality, adaptation, and in-betweenness. My goal is to translate research on the limbo dance and Caribbean diasporic movement into tangible works that visually articulate how bodies and spaces are transformed by migration and ritual. Specifically, I aim to fabricate sculptures mimicking the limbo line to evoke themes of crossing over and flexibility, and to produce images documenting personal performative acts that further interrogate these concepts.