Although I choose to communicate mainly through realism, simply imitating reality is not my primary goal. I want to touch people or trigger some emotional responses-good or bad. I use the technical skills I have developed to tell a story or evoke an emotion. I feel that I've successfully communicated with someone when they feel like they identify with the essence of a particular piece, and it brings about new thoughts or feelings or conjures up unexpected ones within the viewer.

My imagery is primarily the human form. My use of both personal and iconographic imagery is the essence of my work. I associate important people and places in my life with ideas, concepts, or institutions. It is my hope that in telling my stories and revealing my truths that sometimes a commonality is revealed or an understanding is formed. My content pertains to my life growing up in Arkansas, the dynamic of male and female relationships, in particular Black male and Black female relationships, and Religion. My work is about Patrick Moynihan, Willie Lynch, Angela Davis, God, the Devil and Me. These are not just my stories and my truths but stories of an entire gender, race, and class.

For a Black person to paint about Black people it is at once a personal and objective project. It is personal because mother, as well as my grandmother, great-grandmother, and I breathe among the statistics. It is objective because everything must be put into historical context, in order for a rational meaning to be found, so that the forces that shape our own lives may be better understood. In contextualizing these experiences, I draw on such documents as the Moynihan report and various speeches attributed to Willie Lynch. I like to explore themes such as the “perpetual distrust” methods addressed in the most famous speech attributed to Willie Lynch, and the “tangles of pathology” which, Patrick Daniel Moynihan explained, are inextricably knotted with a matriarchal head of household within the Black Community.

As an artist, I attempt to strike a balance between the personal and objective so that the forces that shape our own lives may be better understood, but always there is a point of view or a sense of mission. It is the experiences of my own life that fuel my search for History and Precedent. It was my mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother--the things they passed down and all the hopes that they inspired that got me here.

My work was born out of adversity, change, growth, and evolution. Basically my art is about life through the eyes of a child, an adolescent, a woman, a Black Woman, and a Black person. My work is for the agnostic; it is for the believer. It is for everyone who knows the difference between Arkansas and Texas. My work exists because everyone is a believer-agnostic-atheist at some point or another. My work exists because there are some of us that have seen both Heaven and Hell. My work is for everyone who has seen a fall from grace; for everyone who has ever forgotten how to cry, felt the sting of hate, the tear of flesh, and the confusion of a wavering faith.