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CURIOUSER AND CURIOUSER
 work in progress |  Red Riding Hood reimagines the familiar fairytale through the lens of Black history, transforming the heroine into an escaped enslaved woman navigating her journey toward freedom. Rendered in the artist’s signature black-and-white portrait style, Red moves through a richly layered world where forests, smoke, trains, and night skies become symbols of danger, strategy, and liberation. Her red hood becomes both disguise and declaration—a reminder that survival often required transformation and conc |  Alice in Wonderland is part of Curiouser and Curiouser, a Story Quilt series that reimagines classic fairy tales through a lens of self-discovery, transformation, and cultural memory. Alice is depicted holding the golden “rabbit hole,” symbolizing the precious yet challenging journey of entering the unknown and discovering oneself. Surrounding symbols—the White Rabbit, the Mad Hatter transformed into a crow, the pocket watch, and the white roses—reflect moments of curiosity, change, time, and aw |  Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum is among the most haunting works in the Curiouser and Curiouser series, reimagining Lewis Carroll’s whimsical characters as two elegant Black women whose presence confronts the historical exploitation of Black bodies as spectacle. Inspired by the Muse brothers, Sara Baartman, and other enslaved individuals displayed as curiosities, the work transforms the circus from a place of wonder into a space of remembrance and reckoning. The richly layered border expands the na |
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 Rapunzel reimagines the classic fairy tale through an Afrofuturistic and historically grounded lens, centering a Black princess whose expansive hairstyle becomes a symbol of royalty, ancestral memory, cultural identity, and liberation. Hair becomes a visual language, with braided patterns transforming into landscapes, pathways, and stories of resilience, reflecting the creativity and ingenuity of women who carried knowledge, identity, and survival through their traditions. The reclaimed denim s | work in progress | work in progress |
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