My sculptures, drawings, performance art, photographs, and installations are informed by a daily existence rooted in an aesthetic terrain that is fertile, inclusive, vast, combustible and malleable. I also draw inspiration from African traditions and art forms, and literary figures such as Toni Morrison, James Baldwin (specifically his essays), Zora Neale Hurston, Rainer Maria Rilke, Guilluame Apollinaire, June Jordan, Albert Camus and Charles Baudelaire. A, minimalist simplicity of form with an emphasis on process and unconventional materials, elements, and substances that inherently possess low monetary yet high subjective value such as archival masking tape, felt pads, uncooked black eyed peas, matchsticks, match heads, archival glue, wiggle board, oil & heat resistant antistatic unimatch rubber, razorblades, Black wrap aluminum foil, and straight pins. An alchemical transformation of everyday objects begin to take place in an uncalculating manner and my creative process is laid bare for all to see. While a number of these works may specifically reference my black American experience, my creative output for the most part is intended to transcend the specific for more universal concerns.