Chocolate Wrapped In Silver

(Chocolate) Wrapped In Silver is a project that started off as a thesis and grew into an ongoing body of work. (Chocolate) Wrapped In Silver explores performance as a black body. Through different mediums like video, sculpture, and traditional mediums. The ever expanding search of what makes someone a “star” is far reaching, looking at methods of advertising/marketing and its connection to capitalism rooted in slavery, to the ability to perform as a black body and the power it has from an individual level to a macro level.

When/How I Make White Women Laugh

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When/How I Make White Women Laugh ★

An exploration in “peak black performance.” Referencing William Greaves’ film Symbiopsychotaxiplasm, this piece holds multiple videos side by side to compare and contrast the ways in which black bodies move in a performance state & questions who is the intended audience.

Refresh my memory

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Refresh my memory ★

Taking a look at the building blocks of identity, particularly how family dynamics and traditions are repeating touchstones in life that play a part in becoming ones self on a range of varying levels. Also Dissecting these patterns, whist coping with a family member who living with Alzheimer's

2008 - 2013

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2008 - 2013 ★

Using found footage to create a vocabulary based on media consumed in my formative years to express how the multiple identities I grew up with shaped me into who I am today. Spanning from media that reflects my latin roots to stretching to the children shows I used to watched.

BLACKSTAR

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BLACKSTAR ★

In the movie Flaming Star, Elvis Presley plays a mixed race son of a white rancher and a Kiowa tribe member; battling between his two rivaling American identities. The original title was “Black Star” which symbolizes death.