Carbon Sugar Crystals, 24kt Gold Leaf, Metal Leaf, Seashell with Epoxy Resin on Canvas

Sugar crystals made from my parent's ashes are formed to create the familiar shape of a woman’s vulva, a geode and when looked at it from the side, a human eye. The eye is the door to the soul. The geode represents the woman’s womb. The vulva is the literal door to the Universe. This piece represents the feminine connection in all of us to something bigger.

Mixed Media Mosaic from the "Carbon Copy" Series. Made by growing sugar crystals from my ancestors ashes, beads, 24kt Gold and semi precious stones.

Mixed Media Mosaic from the "Carbon Copy" Series. Made by growing sugar crystals from my ancestors ashes on my dreadlocks, beads, 24kt Gold and semi precious stones.

Mixed Media Mosaic from the "Carbon Copy" Series. Made by growing sugar crystals from my ancestors ashes, 24kt Gold and seashells

Mixed Media Mosaic from the "Carbon Copy" Series. Made by growing sugar crystals from my ancestors ashes, 24kt Gold and seashells

Mixed Media – Chrysler Hubcap, Crystals, Copper wrap, fossil and fake flower petals. Commissioned for the Art in Motion Project by WSADA to be auctioned and benefit Seattle Children’s Museum. Artists were asked to create an Auto inspired Art piece that was shown at the Seattle Auto Show. It is made out of a Chrysler hubcap, sugar crystals grown on a metal flower, a fossil, fake flower petals and copper foil. My aim was to turn something old into something new and signify change, therefore mimick

Multi Media Mosaic- This is 1 of 3 large works created for the "STG Presents: Fortune's Bones, a Manumission Requiem". Fortune was a slave whose bones were taken and used for medical practice and eventually hung in a museum for over 200 years before they were officially identified as his. "For the Cause" highlights the profit of Breast Cancer (a disease that disproportionately kills black women vs other races) that organizations like the Susan G Komen foundation make off of annual “pink ribbon”

Multi Media Mosaic- This is 1 of 3 large works created for the "STG Presents: Fortune's Bones, a Manumission Requiem", a ceremony honoring a slave named Fortune, whose bones were used for medical practice and eventually hung in a museum for over 200 years before they were officially identified. "Gifts Without Voices" is a mosaic that specifically highlights the bodies and cells given unknowingly and without compensation to the medical industry by Fortune and Henrietta Lacks whose contribution le

Multi Media Mosaic- This is 1 of 3 large works created for the "STG Presents: Fortune's Bones, a Manumission Requiem". Fortune was a slave whose bones were taken and used for medical practice and eventually hung in a museum for over 200 years before they were officially identified as his. "Substance Abuse" highlights the use of black bodies for corporate experimentation to create everyday household products as well as medical moral malpractice.