Here for the long ball (2019-2021)

My story with soccer begins on a little dirt field behind the playground of a small Catholic school in Buffalo, NY. I was 10 years old, shy, acclimating to a new school where I wasn’t sure on how to make friends or talk to anyone. Yet I was bold enough to hop in and play. I can’t remember exactly what drew me to that foam ball being kicked around the dust at recess or that mass of boys swarming around it like a cloud of bees. But I must of smelled something sweet in it. Call it fun. Call it communion without language. Conversation. […]

Girl Under Cover Up (2015-16)

Sometimes a girl just doesn’t fit in. Not with the popular girls, not into her pants, not even into that glass slipper called “daintiness” because a girl can’t always be the Cinderella that society wants her to be …

But it doesn’t mean she doesn’t like to play dress up every once in awhile.

This is a story about a boyish black girl who put on a different face to enter a local beauty pageant in Buffalo, NY. This is the girl underneath the cover-up, an exploration of her thoughts on beauty, race, femininity, table manners and sugar cookies. This is an experiment, a play on narrative, a multimedia book of sorts. […]