Fey Asosi (Asosi Leaves), 2024
40” x 40”
Used clothes
Fey Asosi (Asosi Leaves) is a portrait of a plant I know as asosi. I remember seeing Haitian women collect its leaves from a vine that grows on fences around the neighborhood in Little Haiti. This was my first time seeing anyone use common weeds as medicine. This plant is known by many names. Cubans call it cundeamor. Jamaicans call it cerasee.
Black Palm, 2024
40” x 40”
Used clothes, nails
Black Palm is based on a story a woman told me about her journey out of the Caribbean, through Central America into Texas. The trip she described was harrowing: crossing a raging river at night and trekking through a narrowing path surrounded by thorns. One of the dangers of this route is the Black Palm. If one is scratched by the spikes of its trunk, th