Two of Wands Collage on Paper 9 × 12 inches The Two of Wands exists in the moment between imagining a new life and taking the first irrevocable step toward it. It is the card of vision, possibility, and quiet courage. It resembles the space where dreams become plans and the horizon begins to call louder than the familiar. At the center of this collage, a solitary figure stands beneath an amber halo, holding an impossible blue planet. The world is no longer something to conquer but something to carry with care. He is both witness and steward, contemplating not where he has been, but where he is willing to go. Behind him, layered architectural forms fold into one another like memories and unfinished blueprints, suggesting that every future is built upon fragments of the past. The surrounding landscape is intentionally divided. Desert and water, earth and sky, cultivated gardens and stark geometry coexist within the same visual field. They speak to the duality that accompanies every meaningful decision: comfort and risk, certainty and wonder, home and the unknown. The wands of calla lilies rise from unexpected places, symbols of renewal, integrity, and transformation. Their roots remain hidden beneath the surface, reminding us that growth often begins long before it can be seen. The figure’s gaze is calm rather than urgent. This is not a work about rushing toward destiny, but about recognizing that choice itself is a creative act. Every path left unexplored becomes part of the landscape from which we continue to build ourselves.

The Sun Collage on Paper 9 × 12 inches The Sun is a meditation on joy reclaimed rather than joy inherited. This collage explores the quiet power of choosing light after periods of uncertainty, grief, and transformation. At its center, a serene face emerges from the heart of a blooming flower and a reminder that radiance is not something we discover outside ourselves, but something that has always existed beneath the surface, waiting to unfold. A towering red crystalline form anchors the composition, embodying the weight of experience, resilience, and the structures we build from our deepest wounds. Rather than obscuring the landscape, it becomes a monument to survival, a geological record of every challenge that has shaped us. Opposite this strength, a field of blossoms bursts into view, suggesting that beauty and growth rarely exist without one another. Below, a small white horse, ridden by a young Black boy, quietly enters the scene. Often associated with innocence, intuition, and forward movement, it serves as an invitation to continue the journey with curiosity instead of fear. The expansive blue sky offers space for possibility, while the layered collage fragments mirror the way our identities are assembled from memory, loss, hope, and renewal. Inspired by The Sun tarot card, this work reflects a stage of life where perfection gives way to authenticity and where healing is no longer hidden. It is an affirmation that happiness is not the absence of hardship, but the courage to stand fully illuminated by all that has come before. This piece is part of my ongoing Organic Tarot series, a body of work that reimagines the tarot through collage, photography, and found imagery to explore transformation, ancestry, and the landscapes of personal becoming.

The World

The Hierophant

Six of Pentacles

Four of Wands

Nine of Pentacles

Nine of Cups

Six of Wands

"The King of Cups"

20” x 30” Found imagery, Gold, Ink, collage on water color paper 2019 | Denver Art Museum, 2019, Denver CO

The Suit of Cups is associated with the element of water. Water is fluid, agile and in flux but it’s also very powerful and formative. It can be soft and gentle, like waves lapping against the sandy shore, or it can be powerful and even forceful, like a raging river. So as the spoons travel into the cup, The King of cups reminds us to be like water. Remain fluid and ever changing in our actions. Continuously growing as he remains balanced upon his throne/foundation. Here, the Spoons symbolize wands and represent energy, spirituality, inspiration, determination, strength, intuition, creativity, ambition and expansion, original thought and the seeds through which life springs forth, into the Cup of life...

"Two of Cups"

20” x 30” Found imagery, Gold, Ink, collage on water color paper 2019

Inspired by 15th-century tarot, divination, and playing cards, “Organic Tarot ” explores the process of reshaping archived documentary style representations of Black ShareCroppers and ex-slaves reimagined as divine inspirational bodies in space. Intended to create a broader complexity of Black identity stripped of tragic TransAtlantic histories, Organic Tarot, investigates archived material as a method of decolonization of the marginalized mind.