ARTIST STATEMENT
Through a fusion of watercolor, oil, and acrylic techniques layered with textile motifs, collage, and digital transparencies, I construct images that are metaphors for inheritance and repair; showing the ways in which cultural memory is passed, unraveled, and rewoven across generations.
Each composition becomes a form of embodied storytelling — a reclamation of space and voice. Through color, light, and layered materials, I seek to transform displacement into a kind of belonging, and vulnerability into power.
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Oracle Rooster
Read more The Rooster Oracle (2025) is an homage to the rooster as a mythic herald straddling day and night, tradition and transformation. Against the skyline of New York City, the creature’s iridescent feathers shimmer with Caribbean heat—emerald, copper, and indigo—while its gaze fixes toward a rising moon. In Caribbean and Latin American folklore, the rooster is both guardian and messenger, crowing at thresholds between worlds. Here, it becomes an emblem of diasporic rhythm and survival: an ancestral clock reminding urban life of its rural pulse. The hybrid body—part bird, part scaled creature—symbolizes the layered identities of migration, faith, and cultural inheritance.
Dimensions: 12 in x 16 in. Original artwork on archival premium paper & canvas glicee
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Kind Fox
Read more Kind Fox (2025) presents the fox as a long symbol of cunning and adaptability—as an enlightened creature of empathy. Bathed in luminous gradients of coral and teal, the animal seems to glow from within, merging tropical light with a sense of inner stillness. In Caribbean folklore, fox-like figures often represent clever survival and quiet rebellion, traits mirrored here in the animal’s poised, almost meditative stance. The word “Kind” becomes a double meaning: both gentle and kin. In caribbean culture, the fox is rendered not as trickster or predator, but as kin—a being capable of feeling, reflecting, and coexisting. In its luminous silence, Kind Fox becomes an allegory for evolution through compassion, asking whether intelligence without empathy can ever be truly human.
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Eat a Bullfrog
Read more Eat a Bullfrog (2025) merges two potent archetypes—the bull and the frog—into a single mythic creature. The bull, symbol of power and virility, and the frog, emblem of transformation and rain, meet in a luminous body that pulses between masculine and amphibian, earth and water. Its posture echoes the sensual geometries of the Kama Sutra, suggesting balance between desire and meditation. Rendered in tropical gradients of coral, jade, and gold, the figure embodies the hybrid spirit of Indo-Caribbean culture, where Indian, African, and Taíno mythologies intertwine. The work re-imagines the creature as a cosmic mediator, linking fertility to consciousness, ritual to instinct. In its still gaze and poised form, The Bull-Frog Sutra asks how sensuality and spirituality coexist—and whether creation itself begins in the shared pulse of animal and human breath.
Dimensions: 12 in x 16 in. Original artwork – Digital painting printed on paper
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Kama-Lizard
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Kama-Lizard (2025) fuses eroticism and contemplation through a hybrid body reclaiming sensuality as wisdom. The entwined figures challenge patriarchal shame around female pleasure, positioning the lizard as philosopher rather than primitive. Within Caribbean feminist cosmologies, desire becomes resistance—a sacred intelligence bridging body, instinct, and spiritual sovereignty.
Dimensions: 12 in x 16 in. Original artwork – Watercolor on canvas paper
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Afro-Carbbean Art is Trending
Contemporary Afro-latin and Afro Caribbean styles are now in demand more than ever. People really enjoy having their portrait come to life in vibrant, dynamic, and flavorful ways! The style of portraiture I have found that is most fascinating and of organic interest is Caribbean, surreal-themed digital art. It's focused on composition and shapes but mostly emphasizing the vibrant colors and nature motifs in the culture of the Caribbean archipelago to create a dynamic and culturally rich visual experience.
A dear friend served as model; she is surrounded by an aura of serenity, yet very wild beauty. Our connection is transcending the mere physical realm. The colors here are forming a kaleidoscope of hues that symbolize our spiritual bond. In the midst of this ethereal garden, specific flowers hold significant symbolism. Velvety petals symbolize passion and love, intermingled with lilies representing purity and devotion. Each flower, chosen and intricately placed, contributes to the narrative of this divine connection.
