Untitled, 2020
Untitled, 2020, An effort to abstract, veil and protect sacred geometric symbols on a mass-produced rug of Turkish origin.
Sumando lineas for Pecolia Warner, 2019
A meditation between geometric principles and syncretic values within the African diaspora. Specific influence and acknowledgment is made to Pecolia Warner, a well-known African American textile artist/quilter, born in Mississippi, during the late 20th century. Like many African American quilters, Warner's work had a direct lineage to geometric textiles patters that originated in Central and West Africa. Through tradition and ritual, certain abstract narratives have been passed down as part of the African diaspora. Biological fractals and geometric strategies maintain an important ritual in the African diaspora today.
Dwellings #1, 2020
Part of a more expansive project that focuses on the fragmentation of contemporary Urban vernacular symbology and the temporal experiences in communities. The quilt embedded within the architecture serves as a symbolic gesture. Threading the abandoned landscape into the quilt as a form of temporal inclusion. This temporal inclusion is then preserved as a photo document.
Penumbras para algodon morada, 2022
Allusion to the paisley motif (boteh), of Persia-India origins, and its appropriation during the British colonial era. The work is a contemplation on the industrial revolution, the English East India Company and the Transatlantic slave trade.
Untitled, 2021
The work intersects and synthesizes sacred geometries, history, ritual, counter spells and identity reconciliation.
Untitled, 2022
A quiet platform to amplify the sense of reliquary, memory and history as a reflection on the aesthetics of silence and how it transforms itself into an action. Evoking and threading poly-stratified narratives.
Untitled, 2016
An exercise on visual accessibility, color theory and temporal displacement as a form of redistributing power; biological colors, spirituality, religion, structural harmony.
Landscape for the sacred, 2021
Convergence of topographic renderings that include architectural motifs from Persian, North/Central Africa and the Caribbean.
Cuesta Abajo, 2016
This work focuses on the parallels of migration and transformation. The work alludes to Lakota Sioux star quilt design that enslaved Africans incorporated into their quilts as a means of transmitting directions towards Canada, freedom via the North Star. The piece transforms both Native American and Fleeing (from enslavement) Africans pasts into a portal that also collapses time and space through the intersections of both commonalities.
Untitled, 2021
A poly-stratified work alluding to notions of "threading", weaving extensions of our present and past.
Dwellings #10, 2019
Work is an exercise in establishing multi-directional points of origins as form of establishing a platform for dialogue on geography, preservation, identity, spirituality, and recovery.