I create art to turn memory, ancestry, and emotion into something people can see, feel, and keep with them.
You decide who will appear in Artforum Magazine, take home $25,000, and display their work at The Art of Elysium's Salon!
I love creating fine art photography paired with poetic writing and narrative. My work explores ancestry, memory, belonging, and the emotional architecture of nature and landscape. I’m drawn to images that feel quiet at first, then reveal deeper meaning and offer a spiritual, healing message.
Where do you find inspiration?I find inspiration in landscape, lineage, family memory, architecture, water, light, and the unseen life of nature and ordinary scenes. My work begins with observation, then becomes a meditation on what remains, what returns, and what asks to be remembered and shared.
What would you do with $25,000?I would use $25,000 to sustain my work as a multidisciplinary visual artist and to expand my fine art and publishing practice through archival printing, exhibition materials, marketing, and broader distribution of my book and photography series, The Geometry of Belonging.
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