ARTIST STATEMENT

My work uses skills acquired through braiding, sewing, and working with hair tools as both medium and methodology . Drawing from practices rooted in textured hair care, I create wearable forms that function as sites of storytelling, embodiment, and self-definition. Through wearable art, I build imagined worlds that explore the nuanced meanings of “wearing your hair” as protection, presentation,inheritance and transformation. Navigating the world from a bicultural perspective informs my material choices and conceptual approach. By activating these forms through my own body, performance, and photographic environments ,my work examines how identity is shaped, negotiated, and carried through adornment.