Exhibitions

Documentation from my artist residency at Tempe Center for the Arts, including large-scale pen and ink drawings, digital works, fabricated helmets, and oversized crayons.

Desert Song

There are many names for the spiritual connection between people and land — some call it aloha, others ubuntu.
For me, Desert Song was a way to attune myself to the vibration of the desert — soft, subtle, harsh.

I immersed myself in the South Mountain desert, observing wildlife, listening, learning. The land teaches in silence and sun. This work is a spiritual alignment — a quiet attempt to understand and mirror the energy of the desert through art. Pen and ink

Mealies

Meilies — South African corn — is more than food. It’s memory. It’s history.

In this work, corn becomes a vessel. Like Black slaves who braided okra seeds into their hair before being trafficked to the Americas. Like South African women in colonial Victorian dresses, cooking corn cobs over oil-drum fires.

Corn holds the story of survival, of heritage, of nourishment. I honor the gogos who fed me before work every morning — their strength, their generosity, their fire. Pen and ink

Born Free

Born Free is a term used for the generation born after the fall of apartheid in South Africa. I was born five years before its collapse — but somehow, I still belong to that generation.

This collection celebrates cultural objects and imagery that were once concealed to avoid oppression. I carry these elements with me now, not as chains, but as part of my evolving identity — as an immigrant, and as someone reclaiming that which once was used to marginalize.

Drawathon Workshop

By melting hundreds of crayons and molding them into oversized crayons, members of the public were invited to get creative on large-scale paper illustrations. I designed the illustrations, which also incorporated reflective prompts such as “What do I appreciate?” and “What do I want more of in my community?”

Headspace workshop

I fabricated a series of bicycle helmets into drawing apparatuses designed to be worn on the head and used to draw on a large, wall-mounted, primed wooden surface. Participants in the Headspace workshop were able to develop their own helmets and create whatever they wished within the provided space.

Kidzone Workshop - Offsite

Working with youth from 2nd to 5th grade, I facilitated artist book–making workshops in which participants designed and filled accordion-style books. The workshops explored the theme of Ubuntu and what it means to them.