Between Rage and Serenity
Between Rage and Serenity unfolds through the human figure as a site of pressure, restraint, and presence. Drawing, scoring, embossing, and erasure operate not as techniques, but as forms of authorship—each mark registering a negotiation between force and control. The body is not depicted, but constructed through accumulation, resistance, and release.
Across the work, tension is sustained rather than resolved. Surfaces hold their own history—compressed, altered, and carried forward. The figure becomes a structure shaped by what it absorbs and what it refuses.
The work holds.
Blue Torso
Indigo colored pencil on paper.
A figure built through layered drawing, where pressure, repetition, and time accumulate into form.
The body emerges through sustained contact—held between structure and sensation, image and presence.
Pink Self-Portrait
Oil stick and oil pastel on paper.
Built through layered accumulation, the figure carries a second presence beneath the surface—a ghost image that remains active within the final form.
Stipple, gesture, and pressure interlock, allowing the body to emerge not as a single image, but as a field of competing states held in tension.
Process — accumulation in stages.
Brutalist Prints (Quad)
Brutalist Studies
Forms are constructed through division, weight, and alignment—drawing on the language of architecture to establish a system of tension and support.
The forms remain unsettled within that structure, held between stability and collapse, image and construction.
Process / Detail Images
Surface Studies
Each image is worked through scoring and embossing—lines incised, points raised, pressure applied.
These interventions accumulate across the surface, where repetition and compression register as form.
The work moves between image and object, where structure is not only seen, but physically inscribed.
Authored, AI-assisted digital prints.
They are not constructed.
They arrive.
The images are worked through scoring and embossing—lines incised, points raised, pressure applied.
These interventions accumulate across the surface, where repetition and compression register as form.
The work moves between image and object, where structure is not only seen, but physically inscribed.
Authored, AI-assisted digital prints.
Held Force
Charcoal on paper
Forms accumulate through pressure and containment.
Marks, erased and reasserted build a field where force is held in place.
The image resists resolution, settling between structure and collapse.
Light Study — Displacement
Digital photograph
Energy registers as streak and repetition.
The image records force without containment.
Surface Study — Accumulation
Digital photograph
Marks build through repetition and interruption.
The image carries pressure without hierarchy.
Bronze Reliefs
These works are resolved through processes that drawn from sculpture—compression, weight, and surface.
They exist between image and object, where the figure is no longer only seen, but felt.
Authored, AI-assisted images carried forward through processes of physical translation and refinement.
African Diaspora Bronze
Between Rage and Serenity — Thesis Image
Formed through the language of classical sculpture, but not bound to it.