I create multimedia works as a form of Black resistance to colonial America. In detail my drawing, painting, comics, writings and performances examine Black culture and the Black body as a technology from past to speculative future in a narrative that addresses ideas and the intricacies of love, sex, religion and decolonization. I illustrate the conflicts of integration, miseducation, unresolved slavery, unresolved emancipation, and Black people’s lack of ability to self-organize and self-govern. In this I appropriate images of Black trauma to incite conversation to action and dismantle ideas of derogatory Black relations, pacificity, and docility.
When creating my counter assessment of Black stereotypes and misrepresentations of Black existence, I teeter at the edge of celebration and exploitation of Black culture with a use of postmodern appropriations. I utilize cultural symbols, machinery, and non-human life forms as survivalist metaphors for the Black experience. As a result, I revere Black culture while confronting the traumatic results of colonialism.

My exhibitions transform the gallery into temporary “utopias” (ideal space of peace). Through the typically racially, educationally, socially exclusive gallery system I seek to create spaces where open communication about Black liberation can take place between the usual patrons and the typically uninvited non white community, at least temporarily.

Some of my recent work as the collaborative team “Black Kirby” in conjunction with artist John Jennings deconstructs the work of artist Jack Kirby to reimagine Black resistance spaces inspired by Hip Hop, religion, the arts, and sciences. Additionally we collaborate with like-minded others to establish graphic narratives, cultural festivals, gallery exhibitions, and lectures.