This body of work moves through the tension between being seen and being interpreted. Using language, lines, public spaces, and private markings, each piece asks who gets to write the meaning of a Black woman’s life. The work becomes a practice of taking the pen back.
Redlined in Cursive
This piece reflects on the ways Black women’s pain is often watched, scripted, and consumed, while naming the histories of literacy, redlining, and exclusion that shaped Black life in America. Through notebook paper, cursive, and confession, the work becomes a declaration of independence from the narratives that box Black humanity inside.
Magnetic Autobiography
Rooted in the quiet public space of a library, this piece reflects the act of gathering language and shaping it into Black womanhood, movement, weather, and self-definition. It considers how fragments can become testimony, and how a Black woman can claim authorship even within spaces not fully made with her in mind. What begins as scattered language becomes a magnetic autobiography of survival, imagination, and becoming.