At this stage of my evolution as an artist and human, I am claiming my identity as a storyteller. I employ voice, movement, color, and composition to explore memory, imagination, and dimensions of human experience that spoken word alone cannot capture.
I began my artistic journey performing historic individuals who struggled to assert their humanity in oppressive societies. I always believed art could be a force for change. Theatre was the first voice where I found agency to answer the discrimination I had faced as a Black person navigating predominately white spaces for most of my life. Performing became an act of craft, rebellion, discovery, and sacred ritual. As the breadth of my work expanded, so too did the voices I acquired. Words with all their nuance, dimension, faceted meaning, infusion of emotion, and movement with space, direction, time, gesture were not enough for the recurring question at the heart of my work:
Who has the authority to decide who has the right to be human?
I adopted image with contrast, layout, and color, to speak in the unspoken places blending physical, spatial, and sensory tools to explore the tension between control and fervent vulnerability. Directing, performing, painting, or writing are all voices through which I explore the struggle between personal identity, public narratives, and the masks humanity wears.