Connect What is your favorite type of art to create?

I create work that transforms memory, dreams, and lived experience into tactile form. Layering paint with reclaimed materials like predatory lending shreds to subtly confront systems while honoring sustainability makes me feel like my voice matters even in a small way. Through braiding, I process anxiety and connect to ancestral practices. I often include proverbs of wisdom, offering grounding moments that help make the work, and the world, feel more navigable.

Where do you find inspiration?

I find inspiration everywhere. It moves through me as much as it surrounds me, living in both quiet and chaos, in ordinary moments that reveal something sacred when I’m paying attention. My dreams are a constant source, offering fragments of stories, symbols, and emotions that I later translate into form. Memory follows closely behind, personal, ancestral, and collective, shaping how I understand the present and what I feel called to create.

What would you do with $25,000?

With $25,000, I would expand my practice into a community-centered installation transforming junk mail and recycled materials into public art and sculptural forms. Rooted in sustainability, memory, and ancestral practice, the work invites reflection and healing. Through free public programming, including African dance and drum circles, I would activate the space as one of movement, connection, and shared experience, where art becomes both ritual and release.