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I playfully examine the fabric¹ and spirit² of life at local³ and global scales. I limn a decolonial poetic through my practice. My work is on a trajectory healing forwards⁴ towards new ways of knowing, doing, and being, stewarding life to thrive. 

I have a transdisciplinary background in dance, fine art, sustainability, and human rights. To paraphrase the artist Richard Jackson, each of these experiences has formed my attitude [and ethics] toward art making not actual works of art. My works emerge from deep engagements with recurring forms, motifs, people, places, pluriformities, and lines of enquiry, refined in cyclical, reflexive, non-linear processes.

When I’m making, I attune to my sensual interior body and not-strictly-sensory experiential imaginations and psychic and spiritual states. In relation to the ambience⁵ of my surroundings I create sensual forms across a variety of media, and experiential and affective encounters across a variety of contexts. My sensual and conceptual forms are expressive of these vast and subtle embodiments. In my dancing, artworks, installations, situated works, and writing I make visible the complimentary duality that we’re simultaneously shaped by and shaping reality. In my work I’m interested in creating the conditions that liberate interdependent, collective and autonomous internal and exterior worlds.

I create experiential looping journeys from microscopic inner worlds — granular, subjective feeling states — to the architectures, infrastructures, systems, and materials of the universe in flux. Across oceans and lands, moving between places, people, and the organic and inorganic, I explore what is within oneself and beyond. From the post-industrial landscapes and ecologies of the London Docklands and the River Thames to the Caribbean archipelagos of the Lesser Antilles, I make, curate, collaborate, and perform examining experiential and affective ecologies, materials, and histories.

¹Fabric can be your own skin, my skin,  a leaf, water, the air we breath, timber, the architecture and materials that build empires, sand, dust. 

²Spirit can be smiles or tears, fears, desires, intuitive notions,  physics, algebra, death, ancestors, love. 

³Local can be the streets where I live and work, a ten-metre radius around my body wherever I am, places I’m known by name. 

⁴Healing forwards is one of the terms I arrived at in my research to describe the transdisciplinary social change process of sustainability.

⁵I understand ambience as an awareness of my immediate surroundings and the patterns, systems, and structures from which they project.