My interdisciplinary practice draws on my experiences in literature and photography; in installations of video, sound, and paper-based objects, I document the ways gesture and language are shaped into specific narratives. Themes of reflection–literal and figurative-are also a feature of my work and I play with their ability to form and challenge ideas of self and place. The human drive to build complete narratives out of tiny bits of information is as important to my work as are the ways a variety of media structure my finished pieces. I am deeply interested in reading text, context, and subtext via our assumptions about elements as seemingly minuscule as the title of a photograph, film, or passage of words. My work aims to subtly draw awareness to our reliance on absent information and non-verbal communication in creating and understanding narratives. Throughout my work, I privilege my personal history. Who and where, how and why-and my perspective on them-matter immensely. As a middle class North American Black woman, I modify the terms of African American theorist and activist W. E. B. Du Bois’s notion of double-consciousness and am aware of its meanings in mainstream society, but focus on my work’s dialogues with my communities. Thus, I seek opportunities to show my work in non-traditional spaces. Categories All Student Profile