The first work in an ongoing series exploring Black femme domestic care as a site of metaphysical travel. This piece investigates how domestic labor has been shaped by the white imagination and reclaims that space as one of power, worldbuilding, and queer possibility.

UCLA via The Rothman Family Institute for Food Studies and The Bunche Center

Size of the work: 9 ft diameter x 8 ft height

Materials: Mylar, Edible Organic Matter, Copper, Blessed Water, Mirror, Soun

Installation, participatory performance, and sculptural work that reimagines the tools of action and resistance found in Queer Black and Brown archival narratives through the lens of food and material form. In this work I transform acts of nourishment and destruction into ritual gestures of freedom.

Lauren Powell Projects (Art Gallery)

Size of the Work: Varies

Materials: Metal Wire, Brick, Silicone, Iron, Mirrors, Fabric Edible Organic Material

In the Company of Spirit is a sculptural installation composed of three earthen figures made from Georgia red soil, concrete, foam, fabric, and living sprouts native to Black foodways. The work honors the divine guides who speak through the spirit of the kitchen across time and embody the many “faces” of its sacred technologies of survival.

Jan and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art

Size of the Work: 2ft x 3ft
Materials: Concrete, Georgia Red Soil, Fabric, Sprouts, Blessed Water

Performance and interactive temporal sculpture inspired by the legacy of enslaved Africans in the American South. The work draws from archival accounts of enslaved people forced to orchestrate lavish plantation celebrations and reimagines the act of pouring champagne into a pyramid tower as a ritual and an indictment.

Lauren Powell Projects (Art Gallery)

Size of the Work: Varies

Materials: Glass, Blood, Champagne, Fabric

Installation and participatory ritual inspired by archival baby dedication ceremonies in the African Methodist Episcopal Church.

Materials: Fabric, Edible Organic Material, Silver, Salt, Blessed Water

Stormé Supper Club is a radical Black culinary and social practice and an early iteration of my Black Food Futurism framework. The images shared here are from Ink, Leather, and Libations, a sculptural and performative dinner created in collaboration with the Museum of Contemporary Art, the Carter/Johnson Leather Library, and the Annenberg Civic Media Fellowship.