Brown Paper Bag (Limited Edition) (2021) Style:Brown Paper Bag -Unframed-Limited Edition; 15 x 24 The Ancestors Within Us is

The Ancestors Within Us is inspired by the ancestors within all of us who speak to the strength of "knowing" the details of the American journey--our collective history--so as to ensure more promising futures for all descendants (2021)

Jubilee was inspired by Alvin Ailey's Cry

navigating what is real

It is a reckoning with time itself

yet central to every movement

Brown Paper Bag (Limited Edition) (2021) Style:Brown Paper Bag -Unframed-Limited Edition; 15 x 24 The Ancestors Within Us isBrown Paper Bag (Paper or Plastic) This painting highlights the brown paper bag and its role in African American oral history as a discriminatory colorist practice within the African American community. We can trace the brown paper bag test back to slavery when enslavers kept the lighter skinned enslaved inside. Today, we are only beginning to reckon with the natural beauty inherent across the color spectrum in all of us. (LIMITED EDITION 250).