Artist Statement
I am a world builder, obsessed with combining natural science and mythology to develop my own speculative world across media, including painting, animation, installation, sculpture, and costume-making. My definition of world-building explores microcosms and macrocosms that define and unify my worlds. My art experiments with abstraction and figurative shape, pushing color to build its narrative. My recent works shift from exploring the classical elements in mythology and ecology to exploring humanity in my world, grounded in anatomy.
I am currently constructing a world inspired by the human body, built around a seven-microcosm system that weaves together anatomy and physiology, science fiction, and the Black diaspora.
My interest in anatomy and physiology in my work stems from my visit to the Tufts School of Medicine cadaver lab. My experience at the lab changed my perspective on the human body. Being able to learn by holding and engaging with the human body beyond the limitations of a screen or a thumbnail within a textbook. After that, I could not stop thinking about the world within the human body, and how to articulate it in my world and, physically, through material means. I envisioned an anatomical world as a microcosm rather than a macrocosm, a concise and universal world. My goal is to focus more on material and push color from life and medical imaging. I am approaching my series as a garden, planting seeds of anatomy and physiology, world-building, and mythical elements into the crevices of my mind, and cultivating them through my artwork.
Homeostasis
Homeostasis: An organic world with seven Microcosms inspired by various cells, organs, and organ systems in the human body that influence the environments and inhabitants in “Homeostasis.”
Current worlds in progress: Cardium and Metrium
Aquatic
Pyro-Aerious
Pyro-Aerious
"Aquatic" represents my interpretation of the hydrosphere and water-based environments through abstraction. It also serves as a sub-world of "Terraqueous."
Pyro-Aerious
Pyro-Aerious
Pyro-Aerious
“Pyro-Aerious” (a portmanteau of fire and air) explores this concept in meteorology and mythological elements, with red as the primary color. This series depicts one of the upper worlds in my “cosmographic” series.
Terraqueous
Pyro-Aerious
Terraqueous
"Terraqueous" (meaning forming or consisting of both earth and water) serves as the mid-world in my "cosmographic" series, between the Aquatic and Terrestrial areas.
Chthonic
Pyro-Aerious
Terraqueous
From the Greek khthonios, meaning “of the earth,” chthonic refers to the deep, hidden forces beneath the surface. This work depicts various structures and false visible light emitting from the lowest point of the underworld.