Photo by Melanie Zacek.

I’m a Caribbean American visual artist in Western Massachusetts. I’m currently working on two collections of paintings which incorporate botanical and soil elements as part of a novel landscape which center black female figures:

• The Visibility Project

• The Future Flowers Project

All my paintings incorporate shapes and patterns developed in my soil microbial drawings into contemporary ecologically based botanical paintings which include native and introduced flora:

• Botanical Paintings

I consider the act of observing and documenting nature through painting and drawing as a black woman as a form of liberation, environmental stewardship and anti-oppression work. In April 2023, I became the one in eight women diagnosed with breast cancer in the United States.