About the Artist

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I construct imagery that invites the voices of my ancestresses. Their moments of darkness as well as their sustained decisiveness are familiar as enacted counsel across generations of women in my family. My work is solidly based on historical records but reaches beyond a mere chronology of events or a set of archival photographs (non-existent, for the most part). Instead, I take a vantage point that lies between representation and abstraction, unearthing the interior passages through which these women faced personal tragedy along with societal change.