Every time I create a work of art, I feel a parent to child relationship.  Eventually,the work will grow and I will have to release my influence.This will allow the work to start its own family/fan base and create relationship with its audience. My work has a personality that falls between aggressive and docile. This middle ground exposes flaws in my work that I consider its armor. An example of this is my painting “1998”.  It was my first acrylic painting of landscapes depicting places in my life.This is a painting of my family home created with my confident gestural marks, honest colorful palette and unique composition.  When the audience meets “1998” they are allowed to engage in a conversation about nostalgia and reminiscence about their life. After “1998” was painted, I accepted every mark I put on the canvas. “2007” and “2012” are examples of this acceptance, embracing and understanding my mark, color palette, and composition.I am not overly technical but my process and how the medium works with the piece intrigues the me.
 

    My sculpture “Distracted Starchy” started this style of creation.I used broken cell phones, bailing wire, paper sizing, aluminum foil, and rabbit skin glue. “Distracted Starchy” was a bunny made out of aluminium and covered in rabbit skin glue.This piece started with the question “how do I express generation x and y experiencing the emergence of cell phones?” To me, this would be like our first encounter with a pet/ animal.I found out that generation X could recall encounters with animals faster than generation Y, which were faster at recalling cell phones. The cage that Starchy  (bunny) was “trapped” in was made out of cell phones. I wanted to express how this cage controlled the environments of today’s youth. Starchy could leave this cage if he was not distracted by the cell phones.This amateur or naive style of creating became my medium for the work I would create my second semester. 
 

     Naivety is what most of my work expresses.This naive style is very innocent, honest and something anyone can relate to.Therefore, the viewer believes they are on the same level as the creator. As a creator, I want to understand human nature,and I also want the audience to acknowledge it as well.By doing so we can understand that we are closely akin to one another by our shared experiences.This would begin my obsession with bringing people together.  “Starchy Jumping Borders” introduced this obsession, it was my microphone to talk about issues that have related to my life. This piece illustrated the battle between the privileged versus the underprivileged.I found myself in the middle of this battle realizing that there is a bigger cage surrounding these two outlooks on life. This “spiritual” border or lack of consciousness is something that the human race has to think about. With this concept I want people to understand that. We are the same.Once that type of consciousness is understood and adopted, things like prejudice, hate, violence would have no place in the world.  
      Presently, my work complements my amiable, and sincere personality. It's honest, simple straightforward and it says what it wants to say. As a result it has allowed me to have faith in my work, creating a stronger bond with the audience. It doesn’t dictate how to think ,it allows the viewer and the piece to both have opinions on recurring issues. An example of this concept is “Plastic is Where Checagou is”. It creates this field of conversation or sometimes confusion which I also welcome in my work.To be well informed about different ideas I use internet search engines.
     A lot of my work begins with a google search and pinterest. I want to see if my ideas synchronize to someone else's.Synchronization also relates to the word kindred.  I want to create a family reunion between two creations, the human and the body of work.  I want to start workshops after grad school so my work can reach urban black children. I want to inspire a movement of younger black adults spreading love and not hate.  One of the main things that I want passed down from my work is this  kindred feeling.  I believe it will create an upstart of reliability that is only found in strong family bonds.