Anew 2010. Found objects, spray paint, wooden panel. 

Agony 2010. Masonite, acrylic paint. This is a sketch for a painting.

1.        Child Thoughts 2009. Paper, glue, assorted objects and food. I am very interested in performance art but a fan of doing them myself.  I thought i would give it a try with "Child Thought", a look back at my youth. Its one of the most loaded and popular ideas to explore but hard to make it very personal. To keep at as true to my past as possible, I ventured home to investigate what i was like as a child. I looked at old family albums, videos and questioned my family. When I was satisfied in my research i compiled items that represented my child activities. I did not use the real items I had as a child because this piece was a fake look back. What I mean is, I would find items in these egg shaped balls and remember what I use to do with them at the age of 7 or younger. I began to feel like a child and was over joyed with my fun until I became aware of the falseness of my playtime. Then it was clear that those days were over and I would only move forward in my life. It was a sad moment in the performance when i opened the empty egg and nothing was in it, that was what symbolized the end of my childhood.

Outmoded Sender 2010. Wood, glue, screws, pay phone, trash can, wall. I found this pay phone as I was walking home one day. I had made the same journey on the same path but never noticed it before. It saddened me to think that a once high technological device of my youth was now hidden behind trash cans in an used alley. I made a frame-like structure to make the pay phone a bit more noticeable.  I wanted people to only catch the phone by the dumb look of looking offer or out of the corner of their eye. I could have made a huge, over the top frame for everyone to see but I wanted everyone to experience the reward of discovering the pay phone just as I did. This piece focuses on the experience more than the item itself.

Bondage 2009. Metal, fiber wood, rope, spray paint. I tried to do something different with this one, I was going for a more edgy feel. Its a female figure tied up to this tree like form. The female was left there by a person who had intention of returning for her. When I presented this in my class, everyone thought she was a horse by the way i had arranged her body. It is really funny how unexpected comments can happen. I was mad at first but it was my job as the artist to make sure my intent is clear. Now i chuckle when I see the horse.

Birds of Prey 2009. Bronze, plaster, wood, paint, tiny screw toy. There isn't too much to say about this work. I just wanted to have a murder scene with birds. I am very in love with the original bird figure and have used it a lot. 

1.       Helping Hand 2008 (with Brian Boomster-Jabs). Wood, screws, Metal straps, paint, umbrella, plastic bag, light pole. This was another project from Art Foundation year, we had to make a piece with another artist that would interact with the environment.  We decided on a contraption that would hold up and umbrella for people when it would rain. There was a slot for donations and any could use it. The piece did not survive, VCU tore it down the next day so they could have a bbq, all that was left was a metal strap.