I see my creative practice as a form of environmental stewardship. Much of my work seeks to unearth forgotten histories of land/waterscapes that are connected to African American culture, labor, and liberation. I also work more broadly within abstraction framing space, geography, and planning histories. I place my art in dialogue with cultural bearers in the Americas, and I have participated in residencies throughout this region including in Haiti, the Bahamas, St. Maarten, Mexico, and Argentina.
Advocacy is also a form of stewardship for me. Currently, I am executive director of Bayou City Waterkeeper, where I collaboratively advocate for urban water management, flood mitigation, wetland protection, and water quality centering environmental justice and climate resilience. Prior to this, I have launched the first-ever education and public programs at the Houston Botanic Garden, and founded labotanica — a creative studio at Project Row Houses.
Like nature, I have developed a practice that shape-shifts and embraces multiple truths.
I am based in the region know as Houston, Texas — the ancestral lands of the Karankawa, Akokisa, and Carrizo/Comecrudo people and a place whose land-waters have been shaped by the the often unrecognized and forced labor of enslaved Black people and migrants. I am also a mother and a fourth generation artist with working class roots. The prairies, wetlands, and bayous of the Gulf, and the labor and freedom stories of my ancestors continues to inspire me and my practice.