Artist's Statement 

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My work traces the layered experience of diaspora through psychological landscapes shaped by memory, heritage, and abstraction. Rooted in my upbringing in Flint, Michigan, I merge the crumbling facades of urban decay with the dreamlike terrains of ancestral memory. Through an automatic drawing process, abstract patterns emerge that, like Rorschach tests, shift into recognizable forms, inviting viewers to locate meaning within ambiguity. Viewed through a surrealist lens, these hybrid spaces collapse time and place, entwining nature’s quiet reclamation with the beauty and grief of displacement, transforming decay into renewal and melancholy into play.