"Drawing inspiration from bell hooks' Sisters of the Yam, this series explores the interior landscape of black women cultivated in order to survive the psychic, social, and geographic pressures placed upon them. The works explore how identity is shaped-softened, hardened, fragmented-and how the body learns to perform or mask itself within neurotypical, racialized, and gendered environments. The figures are situated inside vividly colored domestic spaces: bedrooms, plants, bedsheets, and architectural planes of pinks, greens, yellows, and blues."
"The interiors are not merely backdrops; they are emotional geographies, worlds built from memory, longing, and quiet defense. The saturated colors function like shields-both expressive and protective-suggesting ways that women learn to craft environments that can hold what the outside world cannot.The concept of 'masking' emerges as a central gesture in the layered surfaces of the face and body."
Series examines the interior landscape of Black women cultivated to survive psychic, social, and geographic pressures. Identity is shown as shaped—softened, hardened, fragmented—and the body performs or masks itself within neurotypical, racialized, and gendered environments. Figures inhabit vividly colored domestic interiors—bedrooms, plants, bedsheets, and architectural planes—where saturated hues act as expressive and protective shields. Masking appears as a central gesture, with color bisecting faces to evoke self-editing and fractured visibility. Tears register release, rupture, and reclamation. Afro-surrealist distortions of scale and memory render interiority as an emotional landscape marked by chromatic tension between vulnerability and protection.
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