Reshaping the Narrative, 2020
58 x 30 inches
LA Times image transfer (Images from March 2020-November 2020) on raw canvas stretched on wood panel. Yosemite Falls acts as a portal.
18 x 24 inches
LA Times image transfer, pressed flowers from my mom’s house on free lumber signed by Jesus from Home Depot.
Breaking the Dormancy (Fire Poppy), 2021
Oil on carved wood panels
40x30 inches
The top layer is a painted sunset from October 9th 2020, heavy ash, smoke, smog. The Interior layer is an imagined sunset with carved lines radiating from the second sun for every fire in the state that had burned more than 1000 acres in the season.
A Brief Dance in The Sun (Fire Poppy), 2021
Oil and image transfer on carved panel.
40x30x1.75 inches
The top panel is a painted sunset from the desert (Wonder Valley) looking west towards the ocean. The interior panel has photocopies of dried wildflowers from Whittier, CA, dancing around a single image transfer of the LA Times front page.
Emotional Support Sunset, 2021
20x16 inches
Oil on paper mache clay made from the LA Times newspaper on wood panel (underlayment). Sunset reflected is from October 9th, 2020 at Dockweilder state beach.
Emotional Support (Snowy Sunrise Bouquet)
16x12 inches
Oil on paper clay made from the LA Times newspaper on canvas.
Supersolarsystem Bloom, 2021
20in x 9in
Image transfer, oil, and graphite on paper
Emotional Support Sunset (Wonder Valley Homestead), 2021
20 x 16 inches
Oil and paper mache clay made out of the LA Times Newspaper. Sunset from Wonder Valley, CA sent to me from a friend. Dried flowers collected from my walks.
Bad News Bouquet, 2021
approx 32 x 20 inches
Oil, acrylic, and LA Times Newspaper on shaped wood panel
Spans the axis of realism and fantasy shows the Compton Cowboys photographed during a peace ride in July 2020 against the backdrop of 12 sunsets, painted in a patchwork. The jacaranda tree, palms, and telephone wires combined with the horses point to the changing nature of LA from rural to urban.
30x24 inches oil on canvas
30 x 24 inches oil and oil stick on canvas. Myth of Califia I, refers to the fictional legend of Calafia, a warrior queen who ruled over a kingdom of Black women living on the Island of California, often depicted as the Spirit of California, symbolizing the untamed and bountiful land prior to European settlement. Other figures hidden in this oil and oil stick piece are views from the freeways, silhouettes of female basketball players in heroic poses, figures from classical paintings that are overlaid, along with the destruction of nature in the region, either in the form of artificial destruction (the burning palm tree) or the drilling into the earth, and the black pollution weaving between the beauty of the region.
52x52 section of chain link fence, raw canvas with 2020 LA Times and 1990 National Geographic image transfers. Acrylic paint, videos rear-projected shot in Los Angeles. The images transfers on the canvas make up a redlining map of Los Angeles