For Natural Grooming, a series of portraits, I collaborated with several women in 'natural hair' forums; places where individuals can exchange information on natural hair grooming. I requested a snapshot that could showcase their experiences; which I would then interpret, introducing into each a myth that was formative to my own grooming during my upbringing in the Caribbean.
My paintings explore the humor ... More

For Natural Grooming, a series of portraits, I collaborated with several women in 'natural hair' forums; places where individuals can exchange information on natural hair grooming. I requested a snapshot that could showcase their experiences; which I would then interpret, introducing into each a myth that was formative to my own grooming during my upbringing in the Caribbean.
My paintings explore the humor and fantasy involved in self-making within diasporic societies, which have an ability to live with cultural ambiguities and use them to build psychological and even metaphysical defenses against cultural invasions. Through a convergence of interest in anthropology, science fiction, black female subjectivity and women''s work, my projects present personal cultural narratives that are natively fluent; neither ethnographic nor political, rather, globally informed reinterpretations of regional mythologies and traditions. Thus far, I have explored these issues through a varied range of topics from Caribbean carnival to the palimpsest of hair culture and gendered notions of landscape. Short