I use photography, video and animation in my self-portraiture work, usually depicting a representation of a young Black woman navigating the urban landscape in which she lives, whilst simultaneously navigating her Self as an archetypically female being, a sexual being, a human being. While my work is highly biographical, as my own image is often the subject of the work, I am interested in moving from personal circumstance to universal revelation about the confrontation and contradictions between the modern Diasporan self and the ancestral self; about transported people, and how we find our way “home.”

In Choose Your Own Adventure, a mystical experience gives way to a exploration of the mundane and pivotal experiences and choices that make up a life. The main character is an illustrated self-portrait. This piece was created using only scanned images of the doodles, sketches and journal entries I drew and wrote while dealing with depression in corporate office life. Similarly, Grind and The Day-to-Day illustrate the crushing monotony of the daily commute: an urban passage; a ritual without closure. In them the viewer is confronted with the terrible constancy of faith; the horrifying potential of seeking without ever finding.