Selected Work / Afro-Caribbean futures
Afro-Caribbean futures
Diaspora and folklore translated into a contemporary visual language.
Independent studio practice · 2024–2026
Role
Artist & Creative Director
Scope
Cross-media body of work — linocut, digital, painting
Outcome
A recognized, collectible body of contemporary work
Challenge
Representation and cultural specificity are hard to get right in contemporary art — easy to flatten into decoration, easy to lose the meaning. The work needed to honor Afro-Caribbean and Afro-Latin identity with genuine depth while standing as ambitious contemporary art.
Opportunity
Cultural inheritance is a renewable source of meaning. Caribbean folklore, diaspora, and migration offered a rich symbolic vocabulary — the rooster as guardian and messenger, women holding each other up — that few were translating into a modern visual language.
Strategy
Build series-based bodies of work that move fluidly across media — hand-pulled linocut, digital painting, oil and acrylic — unified by a consistent palette and recurring motifs, so the work reads as one coherent cultural project.
Process
Researched folklore and family memory, developed motifs across studies, and produced finished pieces through both traditional printmaking and digital craft — translating displacement into belonging, and vulnerability into power.
Creative Direction
Directed the visual identity of the work itself: vivid color, textile and nature motifs, layered transparencies, and a noir-tinged Caribbean warmth that ties the whole catalogue together.
Outcome
A growing, collectible catalogue of contemporary Afro-Caribbean work across multiple series and media, meeting rising demand for culturally specific contemporary art.
Lessons learned
The most universal work is often the most specific. Cultural depth is a creative advantage, not a constraint.
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