My practice involves creating works from my personal and cultural experiences through my gaze as a black queer man raised in the South. Those experiences range from romantic encounters, cultural struggles, or just day to day life. As a multi-disciplinary artist, I choose my media based on emotion and what I deem is the best way to tell the story. For example, when recounting a memory from my childhood I like using chalk or pastel to create a hazy feel that covers the material I'm working on and makes a loose structure to the piece.

Exploring my emotions or what I’m feeling in a particular moment in my work helps me understand complex feelings that I keep dormant and release feelings that I've kept trapped inside for a long time. I find my practice to be therapeutic and cathartic, typically leaving me feeling lighter after I've finished a body of work.

Emotions are an important aspect of my work because they connect me to my audience. I don’t have to explain every detail of a situation to a person for them to understand why I feel a specific way when they look at a piece. My emotional work also allows for a level of unspoken understanding between people I don’t know but have experienced a similar situation.