Artist Statement

My latest work, “Whatever Happened to Yesterday: A Manifesto of Loss and Light”, delves into the tension between departure and return,. It examines the unsettling experience of coming back to a place that was once familiar, only to find it altered, distant, and no longer home. Each work is a meditation on memory, belonging, and the dissonance between past and present. The art invites viewers to reflect on their own experiences of change and how time can distort even what was once most familiar.

This exploration is deeply personal, because after the tragic loss of my beloved son, I returned to my birthplace of Detroit—a city etched into my memory—but now feels like a distant, shifting landscape. The vapor of familiarity clings, yet I move through it as a stranger. This juxtaposition of perspectives is at the heart of the project.