"Too Different" (2017)
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"Live" is a Mixed-medium piece that comments on the issues of mental health awareness and never knowing when to save a life. (2017)
Black love through the ages was a concentration piece I made in my Ap Art class in high school. In the class, I decided to demonstrate and research the concepts of black queerness in periods of time starting from before the 18000s and beyond towards the "future". In this, I wanted to demonstrate a series of instances between black queer men that reflected the environment they were in. In constructing this, I found the history of black queer men to be as expected, hidden, and almost unrecorded. I suppose the result of little information, attempted to be made into illustration correlates with the juvenile technique that I have grown from as the years went by. But in a great sense of self-promise, the need for this steadily suppressed existence of queerness will always be a part of my work.
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"Survivor" (Close-up)
"Survivor" A statue I made of found materials that is meant to represent what it means to heal from pain. (2022)
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"first love" a piece made of cardboard box cut outs with oil pastel crayon illustrations, is a collaboration between photography and other mixed-mediums. In understanding the euphoria of first love I wanted to show an aspect of that moment. (2019)
"He's watching me" in this dimly lit painting I wanted to showcase the paranoia of believing you are being watched. In many cases the worst fear is judgement from one's own self. (2021)
"Untitled" continuing the collection of cardboard cut outs, with pastel illustration you see what looks to be an alien couple in a serious fight. I find this to be another attempt in stretching the believability of a situation, with subjects that hold only a cartoons quality. (2019)
"man" made from oil pastel crayons is a piece that represents the concept of a trans man. In this colorful drawing, I wanted the trans identity to be hidden, only for me to understand the subjects journey. (2018)
"Imagine me" made from oil pastel crayons this is a work that illustrates the bittersweet moment of (coming out) in a black religious household. (2018)
"rapture" made from oil pastel crayons is representing the biblical events of revelations that express the time people will be brought up by God and his angels, and others would be left behind. (2019)
'fairy".a sketch that illustrates a manifested idea of what the slur "fairy" would look like in person. (2018)
"Moonlight'" made of pen on paper cut outs, the piece depicts one of the final scenes between to main characters in the award winning film "Moonlight". (2020).
"connected" A piece made of oil pastel crayon, pen, and acrylic paint on paper that is tapped onto a wooden board. The work is to express the idea that we are all connected from love, to pain and trauma, to the hopes of growing up. (2018)
"broken angel" This piece is made of oil pastel crayon, paper pieces, acrylic paint, black marker, on a wooden board. The piece depicts the final moments of two lovers caught in-between life and death. (2018)
"the love they give" A piece made of oil pastel crayon, black marker, pen and more, inside a used donut box. The piece is to depict the issues of transphobia within the black community and the way it can tear families apart (2018)
"Woodnochio" is a Character painting I made, as a form of childhood wonder. (2017)
