My work explores transformation and inheritance through analog processes and liminal spaces. Working primarily in large format photography, watercolor, and my signature ink-and-bleach technique, I create images that exist between memory and mythology, documenting the evolving landscape of Black fatherhood and the legacies we carry forward.

The “October Coast” serves as the conceptual center of my practice—a mythological threshold where prairie meets ocean, where inherited narratives dissolve and reform. Through traditional darkroom processes and wet plate collodion photography, I embrace the unpredictability of analog methods as a metaphor for transformation itself. Each photograph, each painting becomes a meditation on what we preserve and what we allow to change.

My artistic journey spans the geographic breadth of America—from Kansas prairie to Alaska’s Inside Passage, from Oregon’s coast to Chicago’s urban landscape. These places inform not just my subject matter but my understanding of transition, of the spaces between one identity and another, one generation and the next.

Through October Coast Art Studios and community-engaged projects, I work to make these explorations accessible, creating portraits and event documentation that honor the significance of individual moments while connecting them to larger narratives of place, family, and transformation.