About Me

I was born in Jamaica, Queens to Jamaican immigrants. I spent my early years in Brooklyn in a two-parent household that, despite its structure, was deeply tumultuous. My father struggled with anger and lived a life that brought instability into our home. He was murdered when I was eight years old. Shortly after, my mother sent my brother and me to live with our grandmother in Jamaica while she rebuilt her life.

In Jamaica, I learned discipline, independence, and how to cook. I went to school, adapted, and began understanding resilience in a new way. When we returned to the United States, we lived in Queens before eventually settling on Long Island, where I spent the remainder of my childhood and adolescence.

Throughout every transition, art was constant.

I have been reading and drawing since I was three years old. By seven, I had created my own comic series, The Adventures of X-Boy and X-Girl. I made custom drawings for classmates, often inspired by Dragon Ball Z and other anime characters, long before I understood what a “career” in art meant. Creating was never optional; it was instinctual.

I later attended the University at Buffalo, initially pursuing architecture before completing a BS/MS in Occupational Therapy. I have practiced since 2015 in sub-acute rehabilitation and school-based settings. My clinical work deepened my understanding of the human condition. Resilience, trauma, adaptation, recovery; themes that continue to surface in my artwork.

Art has always been my therapy and my method of processing lived experience. I have not received formal art training, but I have lived, observed, and interrogated deeply. My work is emotionally tethered to what I am experiencing in real time. Sometimes a piece begins with a visual, a song, a person, or a fleeting moment. But when I build a collection, it becomes something more deliberate, an interrogation of a felt experience.

Though my aesthetic shifts from series to series, there is a consistent thumbprint; layered materials, embedded objects, preservation, narrative tension. There is always a story behind what I create and why I create it.

My work is not detached from my life. It is shaped by it.