“ My work exists at the intersection of character performance, improvisational dance, and spatial installation & design. In all my life stages, every phase of art making has been directly rooted to and sourced from human emotions, inner monologue, and personal experiences. My creations seek to make physical, tangible, and visual representations through design and performance to personify the phenomena that happen inside my mind. 

As a Black, visibly queer, trans-spectrum person, simply my presence on a stage can be unintentionally politicized. My creative mission is to find freedom from that exposure so my true message can be heard; Removing presentational self so I can finally be seen. Thus, my Personally Accurate Angels were born. The engulfing nature of their costumes creates opportunity for deliberate removal and abstraction of gender presentation, body image, perceived beauty, and any other identifiers, to allow a transcendence of my/our humanhood and emotions, and a euphoria of anonymity.

Personifying my Personally Accurate Angels manifested itself in a blue bubble blow-up suit, blue-skinned hands, face, and feet, and a black, blunt, bowl-cut bob wig, while surrounded by walls and webs of blue denim and blue environments; Ebonibleu. Second, a pale-skinned, bulging-bodied, wide-mouthed, and black-toothed creature, Miracle, whose appearance may be ever-changing. I access these Angels via short meditations based on emotional experiences, as spirited as delusion-based joy or as solemn as isolation and social death, as a means to transcend my human form. Depending on my character and access point, I use improvisation with movement that either meets at the intersection of clowning/miming persona and Hip-Hop gestures, or the Japanese movement genre of Butoh. The spatial installations are carefully crafted for each Angel, and serve as portals into their respective worlds. 

I am brought to the term Personally Accurate Angels by making the connection from Biblically Accurate Angels. My performance characters embody fear, anxiety, delusion-based joy, and isolation, which all are known to be dangerous and uncomfortable emotions that exist in me, yet were made to protect me. Biblically Accurate Angels, as described and depicted, also appear monstrous and grotesque, and yet still essentially act as a celestial hierarchy that assists in the divine plan. Using Ebonibleu and Miracle as access points, I find my way through my own divine plan, and provide a space of healing and understanding of a life I made for myself. 

Researching personal journal entries from my teens and college years, I found that a lot of what I searched for was to be understood, to be seen, and to be held. For people to see past my perceived, gorgeous vessel and bright persona, and understand some of the rougher/complicated feelings that make me whole (Virgo Sun, Scorpio Moon). I think that’s what we all want for ourselves. God gave you eyes to see, so see me. “