The road less traveled

Bouquet in the dark

Made completely from aluminum foil and spray paint ...

Yoruba!

Created completely from paper towels, aluminum foil and spray paint. Indicating abstractly the image of a woman poised in economic poverty, but grazed with healthy mystery, resiliency and trust in GOD. We look at our mothers shoes as children and we try to walk a mile in her steps… Im Nigerian. This is a beautiful step!...

Hazy

Made entirely of clown balloons and expressed loosely as a mosaic...

Haze

Bronzed

Indicating the strength and determination of the black race and comparing the amount of progress that we’ve seen to a 1 year old that has taken its first steps. Admirable but still weak...

Chained

Generally, it’s our links to our past that create the only chain that is strong enough to pull us from our past into our future. We stand on shoulders of those… This piece has over 6000 pics of different sizes. There are pics that are smaller than half the size of a dime. This piece also features lines from my original poetry....

A Poetic pinch (tattered)

My poetry lines the face holding these confused empty eyes. This speaks clearly to the responsibility that we have not to dwell inside of our issues…But we ought to encourage ourselves so that we can be an encouragement to others.Spoken Word is a gift meant to bless others. It’s not a toy....

Pentecost

There was a fire that laid on them in a tongue… A tongue that had no recognizable mouth but their own… But my own.., Giving spiritual power to them to speak in words unheard… Using the unused, abused and unheard to speak to those with hard hearts who STILL won’t hear… Light us UP LORD! YOU are my fire…...

Light (Paintless Painting)

Made completely of modeling clay rubbed onto canvas....

Be that tree!

Made completely with modeling clay. This piece speaks to us leaning on God and living where we are planted… Blooming and loving others from where we have been planted...

Who’s the fairest?

the vintage image of the classical ornate mirror's. Gold colored and beautiful . Hope springs eternal!...

The CHRIST

Here, you have one man but 2 different emotions. JESUS is depicted as loving and peaceful or passionate and angry… You decide…...

Happy Birthday

Painted directly onto toilet tissue in an effort to save the texture of the paper....

When rain bows

Made completely of modeling clay...

Unrequited

Molded into the shape of a broken Human heart for an unrequited love for Valentines Day. Made of live rotten, molded orange peels, aluminum foil and modeling clay....

Swept

Young girl, school age cradled by color, blowing into the wind....

Grace

Covered with my original poetry and also with civil rights photos, this mannequin has shredded “soda can” spray painted red and also black which gives movement to this love, this that must die (the red) for me....

My secret

Everyone has a secret drawer. My drawer is full of meds for bipolar, fibromyalgia, kidney disease, OCD, PTSD.., FULL And after I open it, it’s almost impossible to close. And life for me is timed by what I’m tethered to. Meds for the beginning, middle and end of my day. I went a lil graphic in this photo because mental illness is a graphic lens that we look at our life through. We must drop the stigmas, immaturity and ignorance and make up our minds. There’s choice… Support or step back… But don’t get in the way…...

Chained - 6000 pictures

Black & White pictures ...

Weeping Willows

Collective

Made with modeling clay...

Tare

Made with clay and alcohol ink…...

Fantasy Forest

Made completely of modeling clay...

My watering can

Comprised completely of hand rolled roses… Modeling clay…...

The Dance

Fallen

My Splash

enraptured

Obey your thirst

The mental mixup that was my mind, axioms and neuropath ways that GOD is rearranging and redirecting and with art I feel that in HIS revamp maybe, HE’S making beautiful. HE is rewiring me… (made completely of soda cans) ...

The Reveal

me, breaking through my reality…Addiction to prescription meds is a serious threat. And although I take narcotics everyday, and my last Walgreens order this month contained 15 medicines… I’m happy because I could be dead, I could be addicted… and I’m not. So I posted that receipt here a on this art piece. Because it’s also what takes my pain away so I can do art ...

She is

The Chase

Chasing me

I’ll fly away

stained glass Whipping

My journal is an entry

My first Gethsemane

Isn’t she lovely

shards of glass, clay and popsicle wrappers...

Closed

Water…....

The Long Walk Home

This photo was actually captured as I was on my morning walk. I thought about how happy I was to be walking for health and felt sad for him as we greeted each other while he smoked… Then he got up… He began walking with a different thought in mind… I love, also the contrast of a city for “city sports” work in the country. Also the passion of a warm color and under tone to a what seems to be a life lacking a little passion. I grew up in Newark, N We’ve all been there...

a Place to Hide

Most of us think of “hide and go seek” as fun Until you are “hiding” from abuse…. I have been sexually abused. That’s OUR story… Many of us… For many of us, escaping abuse sexually is not the norm. We place our pain and try to scrub ourselves as a means of separating “us” from those that truly are the dirty ones. Since I can’t control my abuser… Since I never know when he will show up… I will control the one thing I have… I will clean what I can. me… ...

Open

Enclosed

My Peace

My friend lived here. Mrs Genny.. Then cancer moved into her natural body… But it couldn’t rob her soul.., And as she rests now at peace with the FATHER, I wonder… Is her HEAVENLY HOME colored pink and blue too?...

Warehouse lock

Psalm 24

self portrait

This is meant to imitate the carnival scenes where many people are found distorting the view they carry by standing behind images of curvaceous women and strong men for that one opportunity to catch a glimpse of themselves in any way other that the way they are. The self portrait stands then as a curated effort for me to remake my life… Until I walk away from the funny screen and I realize just how temporary my view was....

Hope

My Cross

Potty training

Hope

To the KING

Cattelyn conversion

Script

I need a LION!

I am BLESSED

My poetry and art combine in this sculpture on canvas…...