Maize
Date: 2024
Dimensions: 26in x 8in x 5in
Medium: found objects, wood, electric conduit, recycled magazine paper, bottle caps
Drawing inspiration from African mask traditions and street-culture improvisation, MAIZE reinvents the face as a vessel of laughter. Blending industrial and domestic materials, it celebrates resilience, color, and connection. Its wide eyes, coiled hair, and playful tongue use reclaimed materials to express shared humanity and universal joy.
Kora’s Koils
Date: 2024
Dimensions: 22in x 8in x 3in
Medium: found objects, wood, electric conduit, recycled magazine paper, bottle caps
Kora Koils celebrates resourcefulness, heritage, and the enduring spirit of African forebears. Ancestral presence hums through this abstracted face, evoking rhythm, strength, and continuity.
Reverence & Rust
Date: 2024
Dimensions: 22in x 8in x 3in
Medium: found objects, electric conduit, muffler, skateboard deck
Rust and Reverence explores the intersection of heritage and modernity. A face assembled from industrial detritus—muffler pipe, steel coils, skateboard wheels—becomes both a playful self-portrait and an homage to African lineage. The work celebrates transformation: how time, wear, and imagination can turn discarded metal into a smiling spirit of continuity.
Oba Spirit Stool
Date: 2024
Dimensions: 44in x 10in x 18in
Medium: found objects, plywood, steel
A humble bar stool is reborn as a symbol of heritage and character. Crafted from upcycled metal, fabric, plywood, and everyday debris, the work evokes the presence of an Oba—a Yoruba king—infused with humor and imagination. Its playful expression suggests a spirit that remembers domestic stories while celebrating renewal, dignity, and creativity. Through African-inspired symbolism and recycled materials, the piece reminds us that even ordinary objects can laugh, lead, and live again.
Love & Whimsy
Date: 2024
Dimensions: 30in x 30in x 6in
Medium: upcycled steel rods, wood
Love and Whimsy is a sculpture that transforms recycled metal into a quiet dance of connection and joy. Two faces lean together in balance and ease, floating in space. The work fuses strength with softness, embodying an African sense of unity, resilience, and joy. It invites the viewer to pause, smile, and feel love made light.
Tawira
Date: 2024
Dimensions: 16in x 15in x 6in
Medium: steel, electric conduit
Tawira, from the Shona word meaning “forged” or “molded,” is a sculptural head crafted from recycled, rusted metal that recalls the power of an African mask. A salvaged car muffler forms the neck, while coiled steel conduit shapes the hair, merging industrial remnants with ancestral identity. Through its weathered materials, Tawira embodies materiality, ancestry, and history — transforming rust and reuse into a testament of endurance and spirit.
Brewers Alley
Date: 2023
Dimensions: 28in x 15in x 8in
Medium: upcycled steel rods, recycled cardboard, wood, staples, zip ties
Brewers Alley is a sculpture made from recycled beer boxes and metal rods that celebrates creativity, craftsmanship, and transformation. Colorful cardboard, reshaped by the artist into lively patterns, is easily lifted by a simple steel frame. Familiar yet surprising, fragile yet sturdy, it shows how design can come from the overlooked and renewal from what we discard.
VR with Frank Gehry
Date: 2024
Dimensions: 12in x 5in x 5in
Medium: polymer, metal ingot
3D-printed rendering of the artist sits on Frank Gehry’s Wiggle Chair, recast in poured metal with a silver finish. Wearing a VR headset, the artist explores the link between design and technology, merging the physical and virtual to reflect on how creativity bridges past craftsmanship and future innovation.
Between Weave & Wave
Date: 2024
Dimensions: 6in x 8in x 1/2in
Medium: molding clay
Between Weave and Wave is a pair of clay masks which explore rhythm, texture, and balance. One evokes woven patterns, the other gentle waves. Made through 3D printing and hand-built wooden molds, they merge tradition and technology, turning structure and improvisation into a sculpted echo of jazz.
OXYL
Date: 2022
Dimensions: 11in x 18.5in
Medium: 3D Model (Blender.org)
In OXYL, the artist explores the aesthetics of function through speculative design. The two digital images depict tools conceived for a future beyond Earth—objects of precision and necessity. Modeled and rendered using advanced 3D software, each form demonstrates clean geometry, optimized structure, and carefully tuned material properties. The deliberate control of lighting and surface reflection enhances the illusion of physicality, inviting the viewer to question the boundary between digital fabrication and industrial reality.
Bravery, Black Girl Magic & one Band-Aid
Date: 2023
Dimensions: 8in x 12in
Medium: Virtual Reality (Gravity Sketch)
Bravery, Black Girl Magic & one Band-Aid captures a young African American athlete in a moment of quiet confidence. The hint of a low-poly style highlights her unique character—band-aid and facial contours—while sports branding grounds her in a modern, aspirational story. Clean geometry and expert lighting enhance the impact, inviting viewers to rethink who belongs in sports and how black girl magic thrives with resilience and grace.
Salvaged Waters, Caffeinated Scales
Date: 2024
Dimensions: 36in x 20in x 7in
Medium: recycled coffee cozies, cardboard
Salvaged Waters to Caffeinated Scales is a sculpture that suspends a vision of possibility—a fish composed of recycled coffee cozies and cardboard boxes, gliding as if alive. It invites contemplation of design, form, and the poetry inherent in salvaged materials.