Studio Artwork
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world.
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2005Approx. 30" h x 24" w X 24" d
Paper text, salvaged objects, blackened peas.
Self portrait reflecting my challenges with blindness and my evolution of creative vision. It uses magnifiers—the only optics that I use—as metaphors reflected in my found word poem, collaged on the surface of the silhouettes.
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2007Approx. 40"h x 12"w x 6"d
Found objects, branches, natural hair locks, and salvaged wood door panel
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200852" h x 48" w x 12" d
Vintage wood window, transparency collage.
After the devastation from Katrina revealed the inequities in New Orleans and the struggle for people to return to their homes, this piece was created depicting the cycle of life and the displacement of vulnerable people by climate changes and social inequities.
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2006Approx. 48"h x 48"w x 48"d,
B/W photo collage on wood with acrylic paint glaze. Found guitar and salvaged crib.
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2010Approx. 24" h x 24" w x 48" d.
Found objects, paint, ostrich eggshell mosaic.
Based on a dream I had reflecting on a creation story of the Earth. Using a refigured mannequin baby, crawling from a cracked egg made from plaster gauze and an ostrich eggshell fragment mosaic.
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1995Approx. 57" h x 20" dia.
Wood boxes, scrap moulding, found objects.
Based on a dream I had of the different houses we lived in over a forty year time period—inspiring this sculpture, which visualizes my nomadic way of life.
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199648" h X 72" w x 12" d.
Salvaged glass and shell mosaic on wood, copper mirror, resin and water
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1999Approx. 60" h x 48" w 18" d
Photo collage, found objects, paint glaze.
A portrait of my experience and marriage in Barbados West Indies to a gifted artist who suffered from mental illness.
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2022Vintage cardboard suitcase, with collaged map and vellum photo collage on salvaged wood using glue, acrylic paint, transparency film, glass lens and plexiglass.
Suitcase: 7” h x 21” w x 13” d
Wood Blocks: approx. 1 1/2” d x 3 1/2” w x 61/2”h each
There is a saying that the “eyes are the windows to the soul”, and through my creative vision that is how I’ve grown to see the world. In many ways, I “see” more intently now with partial blindness than when I had 20/20 sight, because I’ve learned to rely on all my senses to fill in the details.
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2002Approx. 36” h x 40” w x 15” d
Wood, printer tray, photo collage, seeds, leaves.
Visual narrative portrait of my Grandmother—who taught me the art of storytellying using photos and found objects. This piece honors her story.
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2009Approx. 60"h x 24" dia.,
Bamboo, grass, bicycle seat, tires, copper scraps, wood, metal, rope, and wheels.
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200668"h x 36" dia.
Found shoe sole, salvaged wood shoe box, paper and transparency photo collage, plexiglass and acrylic paint, branches, wood shoe forms, cable spool and wheels.
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199512"h x 48"w x 2"d
Salvaged wood transom window, glass, b/w paper photos and transparency film collage.
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2009Approx. 6" w x 8" h x 12" l
Shoebox, vintage metal roller skate, found objects.
I remember loving my metal skates as a child, and this attraction to anything on wheels has never gone away. Combining an old roller skate with a cardboard shoe box instantly took shape as a house on wheels and brought “My Road to Freedom” to life.
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2004Approx. 32"w X 32"d X 84"h.
Salvaged glass and mirror, stencil and collage beneath glass, copper.
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2009Approx. 18" h x 12" dia. base, Wood figurine, glass beads found objects metal.
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2022Vintage cardboard suitcase, with collaged map and vellum photo collage on salvaged wood using glue, acrylic paint, transparency film, glass lens and plexiglass.
Suitcase: 7” h x 21” w x 13” d
Wood Blocks: approx. 1 1/2” d x 3 1/2” w x 61/2”h each
There is a saying that the “eyes are the windows to the soul”, and through my creative vision that is how I’ve grown to see the world. In many ways, I “see” more intently now with partial blindness than when I had 20/20 sight, because I’ve learned to rely on all my senses to fill in the details.
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2024Salvaged natural pine tree trunk, vintage glass bottles, flat glass marbles, natural river rocks, mirrored glass pebbles, copper tubing and foil, salvaged steel cut base.
48” diameter Base x 11’ h
The Medicine bottle tree was inspired by the traditional African American practice of placing bottles onto the branches of a dead tree in the yard of a home to ward off negative or harmful spirits, a tradition that stems from ancestral beliefs. My interpretation combines the healing elements of conventional and natural medicine, commonly known as a caduceus but is actually considered the Rod of Asclepius.