my first lithograph on limestone
using a removal process, i applied a grease based tusche onto the limestone before scratching it off with sandpaper and chemicals/acid based solutions to add to the texture of the finalized print.
Untitled 12x10 in.
🐌 🦢 - first drawing of the year
this year i really want to start using more color in my artwork and experiment with blending my representational drawings with my textural drawings and this feels like a step in the right direction. its also the biggest work ive made so far which felt pretty freeing to have more space. please zoom in :)
So Sweet and Willing 12 x 7 in. Mixed Media
final drawing of 2025
started intentionally drawing in July of this year and its been a fun process of discovery, failure and a lot of surprises. excited for whats next in 2026
No Words: In Conversation
theres always been something fascinating to me about people being in the same shared space, not saying a single word but being able to still deeply connect and communicate with each other. Some of my favorite paintings I've found recently deal with subject matter involving two (sometimes more) people, engaging in a memory, an experience and/or emotions, where us as the viewer are void of text and speech but the artworks subjects still having a deep parallel connection with each other that the viewer can understand, relate to, and sometimes feel present for without having to read or be in verbal dialogue with to feel. these are some paintings i've come across lately that do that for me.
Reggie Burrows Hodges, The Offbeat: Cantana (2023)
Jennifer Packer, A.D.I.P.T.A. after Jay Electronica (2025)
Cassi Namoda Little is Enough for Those with Love/Mimi Nakupenda, (2019)
Noah Davis Untitled, (2015)
Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Nwantiinti (2012)
Charcoal Study Drawing # 2
Archive digging, nostalgic for a world I never experienced directly. Only imagining through the stories my mother shares with me of her growing up in the city and the remnants that remain persistent in a city shifting more into a place that doesn't look nor feel like what she describes. Funny how you can feel nostalgia for something you'll never truly know. These pictures help me build a deeper understanding.
Photograph from 1965 of a college student, sitting on scaffolding while painting a house as part of a Work Study Project that came out of Boston’s Urban Renewal Project which ultimately forced many black and brown families out of the South End/Roxbury
Quick Charcoal Sketch Study
Photograph from 1965 of children playing during the recreation program of Freedom House's Roxbury Work Study Project
(been digging into the archives of Black Boston lately from the 50s-80s and found some really incredible photographs of joy, love and relaxation.)
inaugural camping trip 2025
all music and video by me 📹🎵
video clips from early this august
first soundscape/song was made sometime in late 2023 or early 2024 (i don't remember) and second soundscape/song was made earlier this year
