In all my work, I come back to the same purpose:
I tell my story so that someone may find the courage to tell theirs.
The Work takes two main forms:
The High & Mighty Dream Quilt
There’s power in the act of writing down your dreams. Whether it be in a journal or simple scraps of paper, something special happens when you call your wants and desires into the physical world.
The High & Mighty Dream Quilt is a vessel being crafted in the community way. Made up of fabric, flowers and paper offerings of dreams, goals and aspirations, the quilt wraps up all the love and hope a community can muster.
Personal Affects
I Am Sam. Like my aunt is Sam.
I am Lee. Like my grandfather was Lee
I am Christian. Like my My Grandmother was Christian and my Grandfather was Christian and they became Christian together.
I am the collaboration and amalgamation of two peoples who came from two peoples who came from two peoples. In love and joy and delight. Through pain and death and loss, I am here.
Blood runs like cool water carving the limestone and leaving veins behind. Veins like my mother’s veins. Veins like my Father’s. I am a complex network of bones and ideas and I come from someone. From something and somewhere. So then, where? What does the story of my heritage sound like? Does it echo off the rocks of the James River? Maybe it whistles like the wind through a poplar tree or rings out from deep in a valley in the Carolinas
In Personal Affects I try to know that sound. Attempt to analyze its composition and dance to the rhythm it provides.