We Be The Blues

We Be The Blues is a visual hymn to the legacy, love and labor of black families in the American South. It is a meditation on our everyday lives: The wash on the Line, The whispers of Papa's harmonica, The joy of long dirt roads, and how these ordinary gestures hold extraordinary beauty, history, and endurance. Through hues of blue, I honor not only the emotional depth of the blues as a sound and a feeling, but also the sacred resonance of indigo, it's spiritual weight, it's economic exploitation, and it's role in shaping both our suffering and our survival

The color Blue for me is both wound and balm. It tells stories of toil and tenderness, of what was taken and what could never be stripped away: Our Grace, Our Rhythm, Our Regality.
Each painting carries traces of those who came before, archival echoes, ancestral whispers, and the unspoken blues of generations.

As a self-taught artist born of southern soil, I paint with memory as my compass. My Brushwork moves like a field holler or ring shout: layered, circular, improvisational, blurring the lines between the spiritual and the domestic, the historic and the personal. I want the viewer to experience this work as if a family photo album or a Sunday sermon, feeling both the ache and the hallelujah of what it means to be black and alive in the South.

We Be The Blues is a call to remember. It asks us to see ourselves and our ancestors not in tragedy, but in transcendence; to witness how we , the descendants, have become the very song our forebears once sang