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
Marigolds, 2024
Fabric, beads and image transfer on linen
65” x 52”
Marigolds depicts the role of the marigold bloom in Dia de los Muertos celebrations which have migrated out of Mexico and across the United States as a way to maintain relationships with those who have passed, and to honor the dead.
Passage, 2024
Fabric, beads and image transfer on linen
65” x 52”
Passage represents a vehicle of transition between life and death. The boat is an image that can be associated with travel, commerce, enslavement, colonization, migration or the journey to the afterlife. The flowers might be seen as an offering of welcome, apology or celebration.
Leaves and Bones, 2024
Fabric and image transfer on linen
65” x 52”
This image depicts marigold leaves and bones, inspired by the concept that life and growth literally come from the bones of dead ancestors within the soil, an idea that I came across in studying Southern root medicine. Marigolds are part of Dia de los Muertos celebrations, a way to maintain relationships with those who have passed, a