My work explores cultural identity, memory, and the lasting impact of colonial history through painting, printmaking, and photographic collage. As a Belizean American artist, I draw from personal experiences navigating diaspora between Belize and Los Angeles. My practice investigates how identity is shaped by migration, displacement, and the histories that continue to echo through contemporary life.
The foundation of my work begins with photography. I document people, environments, and moments from Belize and Belizean communities in Los Angeles. These images become the raw material for my paintings and prints, where they are layered, manipulated, and reinterpreted through processes such as screenprinting, collage, and painterly intervention. Through these transformations, the image shifts from documentation to reflection, revealing how memory, history, and identity are constantly reconstructed.
Belize’s history of colonization and resistance plays an important role in my thinking. The identity that emerged from this history represents a culture formed through survival, adaptation, and collective resilience. As someone shaped by both Caribbean and American cultural spaces, I use my work to examine how identity persists and evolves across geography and generations.
Through this process, my work becomes a visual conversation about diaspora, belonging, and the ways communities carry culture forward even after displacement.