Artist Statement

My work honors the universality of femininity, my African-American roots and more specifically, my great-grandmother, who was a midwife in rural Georgia. From the time I was an infant she brought me with her as she delivered babies throughout the county. Upon her passing at ninety-two, I was moved to the inner city of Miami, Florida. The biographical references of rural and urban symbols reflect the dual nature of the artistic influences in my life. These two juxtaposing worldviews are antecedent to the multiple layers, meanings and ambiguities expressed in my art. Use of organic forms contrasted with geometric angles, and opacities in opposition to transparencies, allows me the freedom to explore the fluctuation of positive and negative space which is impregnated with a fluidity that engenders discovery via a linear rhythm analogous to the improvisational riffs found in jazz music such as Davis, Coltrane and Parker.