Afrocentric Art

I’ll confess something I don’t admit often: there are nights I stare at a portrait for an hour and feel like I’ve gotten everything wrong. The eyes feel hollow. The crown feels borrowed. And then, somewhere around the third cup…

I want this collection to give whoever receives it one specific feeling: the quiet pride of being fully seen. There’s something about the shape of the afro — defiant, soft, bold, natural — that holds all of that at once.…

I almost didn’t finish this one. Halfway through, I sat staring at the page convinced I was overcomplicating her — too many lines, too many patterns, too much feeling crammed into one face. Then I realized the “too much” was…

I’ll admit something I usually keep to myself: I almost couldn’t start this series. After I lost my dad in 2023, I sat at my desk for days with a blank page, afraid that if I drew him, I’d break.…

I’ll be honest with you: when I first started these masks, I wasn’t sure I could pull off the feeling I had in my head. I kept asking myself if I could make something that looked ancient and futuristic at…

A crown of coils, a face full of quiet strength, and lines drawn slow enough to carry a whole story — that’s where this collection begins. Natural Hair Art, the way I make it, isn’t decoration you glance past. It’s…

I’ll be honest about something. For the longest time I doubted whether anyone else felt the absence the way I did. I’d second-guess my own eyes, wondering if I was being too sensitive about it. Then I would walk through…

So there’s this one question I keep returning to every time I finish a new piece, and “Cosmic Embrace” — one of the many romantic works I’ve made over the years — brought it back again the moment I set…

And that’s the part that always stays with me — watching a student walk across campus with a bag that says absolutely nothing about who they are. After more than 30 years of drawing, I’ve learned that the things we…

Most romantic art made for bedrooms falls flat for the same reason — it tries to say something about love without ever having felt it. You can sense when a piece was designed to fill a wall instead of to…