— PROJECT NAME

Pillow Talk Retrograde

— MEDIUM

Video, 5 x 7 Monitors, HDMIs, Media Players

— DATE

01.05.2022

The bedroom space is a highly private environment in which only those permitted may enter. These areas are decorated as cluttered and colorful or as minimalist as the dweller wishes. The bedroom showcases a person’s personality to the absolute fullest, filled with objects of love and memory. The bedroom is especially significant for queer people as these are of the few spaces in which their gender and sexuality can be safely explored. However, what happens when this safe space becomes a nightmare?

Pillow Talk Retrograde explores the bedroom as a terrorizing environment. While the bedroom is a safe space, it can easily become a monstrous entity. The anxieties and fears of a queer person can exacerbate into an uncontrollable spiral. Through the use of small monitors, I work to showcase these intimate moments of panic, dissociation, and depersonalization as if peaking through a window. Each fabric depicted was chosen by my participants as a texture that calls to them. The fabrics act as the growth of anxieties overtaking my actors. With the addition of highly saturated colors and jittery movement, my actors’ slow descent into dread and dissociation within their bedroom begins.

— PROJECT NAME

from one nonbinary to another

— MEDIUM

Artificial Intelligence

— DATE

16.12.2021

From one nonbinary to another explores conversations between two gender non-conforming beings. Discussions around transness, sexuality, body and the story of the two headed calf are investigated.

— PROJECT NAME

A Play in the Sun

— DATE

23.04.2023

An exploration of color and cinematic techniques. This project was a collaboration between Mark C. Hilbert and Kaila Gumbs.

— PROJECT NAME

Man and Machine

— MEDIUM

Artificial Intelligence

— DATE

24.02.2022

Man and Machine explores the growth of new age cults based around technology. Through the use of AI generative art, technology and religious iconography mix into a new powerful, but unknown being.

— PROJECT NAME

Interview with my Grandma

— DATE

16.11.2020

Interview with my Grandma highlights the cultural and generational differences between my paternal grandmother, born in 1936, and myself, born in 1999.

Because of the physical and generational difference between each other, my knowledge of her life is quite limited. Through this project, I strove to reconnect and gain a better understanding of my Grandmother and my Afro-Caribbean ancestry.

— PROJECT NAME

Self as Source

— MEDUIM

Hand drawn Animation, Ink, Pencil, and Paper

— DATE

15.10.2018

Self as Source focuses on the early challenges of adult life.