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I am a Baltimore based multidisciplinary artist. I am a dreamer, a dream, a father, a gardener, a neighbor, a black man in America, a lover, and a being transcendent of labels. I am indigenous to a soil that I am always walking barefoot on despite any appearances to the contrary.
I was born in Trinidad, grew up in NY, and have called Baltimore home since 2002. As a child, I spent a large portion of my free time making things and creating stories. From household materials and scrap cardboard, I made toys, costumes, and props for stories that I made up. At the time, I didn’t have a concept of art as a career path. To me, this was just the ritual of play. It wasn’t until I graduated H.S. and meandered through a couple different interests that I realized that what I wanted to do most was continue making stuff and telling stories.
The process of translating the non-physical processes and activity of our consciousness through imagination into materially referenced objects (that we call art) has fascinated me since childhood. I thought of art as a form of dreaming, and as play at its most sacred. Even as a child, it made me appreciate being human, as I saw no other creature doing it with the capacity that we do. I understand it now as the essence of what is often referred to as ritual. Often, that young me ruminated on the thought that this capacity to visualize and create must be part of our function in the evolution of life in the universe, even though, for allI know, every living thing is doing it too. Over the years I have become keenly interested in the fact that we also become entrained by our own creations. Art imitates life, and then our lives return the favor, for better or worse.
I aim to use art as a connective social medicine, to stimulate the imaginative capacity within my audiences and myself. By engaging the creator within, we connect to the flow of life around us and our awareness heightens bringing benefits to our lives, our relationships, and nature itself.
I was born in Trinidad, grew up in NY, and have called Baltimore home since 2002. As a child, I spent a large portion of my free time making things and creating stories. From household materials and scrap cardboard, I made toys, costumes, and props for stories that I made up. At the time, I didn’t have a concept of art as a career path. To me, this was just the ritual of play. It wasn’t until I graduated H.S. and meandered through a couple different interests that I realized that what I wanted to do most was continue making stuff and telling stories.
The process of translating the non-physical processes and activity of our consciousness through imagination into materially referenced objects (that we call art) has fascinated me since childhood. I thought of art as a form of dreaming, and as play at its most sacred. Even as a child, it made me appreciate being human, as I saw no other creature doing it with the capacity that we do. I understand it now as the essence of what is often referred to as ritual. Often, that young me ruminated on the thought that this capacity to visualize and create must be part of our function in the evolution of life in the universe, even though, for allI know, every living thing is doing it too. Over the years I have become keenly interested in the fact that we also become entrained by our own creations. Art imitates life, and then our lives return the favor, for better or worse.
I aim to use art as a connective social medicine, to stimulate the imaginative capacity within my audiences and myself. By engaging the creator within, we connect to the flow of life around us and our awareness heightens bringing benefits to our lives, our relationships, and nature itself.