To carve out space, the Black artist is often asked, explicitly or implicitly, to enter a kind of circus. To dance. To perform with the monkey. To exaggerate pain, trauma, or stereotype just enough to be legible, but never enough to be disruptive. And even when space is granted, it is conditional. Within it live classism, colorism, respectability politics, and aesthetic policing..But I want to believe, despite everything, that visibility does not have to come at the cost of h

A Letter to My Nephew Copper engraving, Mixed Media Collage, Giclée Print 28'x40" 2025 A Letter to My Niece Copper engraving, Mixed Media Collage, Giclée Print 28'x40" 2025 A Letter to My Niece and Nephew is a deeply personal work inspired by the writings of James Baldwin—particularly My Dungeon Shook: Letter to My Nephew—and by the writings of Jarvis Jay Masters, an incarcerated author currently on death row in California. Both writers use language as a means of survival, re