My work examines how personal and ancestral experiences intersect with the politics of memory, questioning who gets to claim space within diasporic spaces. I interrogate the structures that determine which narratives are preserved, inserting myself as an active participant in preserving my own history.

Through intimate, meditative mark-making, I explore the generosity of clay, reimagining extraction as a reciprocal dialogue rather than a one-sided process. The material holds these exchanges, conscious of the intimacy between us. What does it mean to hold something? What does it mean to be held?

Clay is elemental, the earth is flesh, bodies are vessels archiving time on this Earth.