My art practice and research is centered in a passion for drawing, which  has provided the foundation for my ever-evolving work. The images I conjure provide a conduit to address the romantic ideals of a young man from the city of Harlem in the mid-1960s. I share the ideals of the renaissance I absorbed as a boy, and hoped for as a man. My political and aesthetic concerns are fostered through the spiritual fortification of family and study. Planting the seeds of idealism as a child, watching Civil Rights struggles happen on my block, experiencing the streets full of litter and magic.

Like the classically trained jazz musician, who brought escape in sweet and swinging memories of Friday nights, I evolved an instinctive reflex to improvise and manipulate the environment  in my images. 

The figures of Black bodies and souls offer the familiar of the people I want the world to see. Like the standard tunes raising from smoke filled sets I romanticized, of before I could sit in and dig, instincts for intuitively shifting of melodies, creating the new while maintaining familiarity shape my reaction and invention of visual metaphor. Strength, beauty, form, athleticism; these ideals continue on in my work.

The images are a reflexive response to what I see, feel, and absorb- forming abstract impulses used to juxtapose the power of the human figure at the center of the visual performance I am engrossed in. My images aim to erupt individualized interpretations of the visual narrative and conceptual clues I embed. These associations are the genesis of ideas I present in the public forum, on the gallery wall, and in the printed pages.

Inspired by histories retelling- the poems of Harlem’s Langston Hughes, Romer Bearden’s collaged images, the fresco walls of Diego Rivera, the scatting of Betty Carter, sounds like John Coltrane’s  promises of liberation and free expression. From the backdrop in the families living room on Saturday nights the essence of mingled  histories and hope. Forming like bridges, the confluence of music, literature and history are holding together my life journey, building towards legacy, the trail made under the extraordinary circumstances of a Eulipion- a  seeker from Harlem to Detroit.