My work addresses exoticization, dislocation, racial stereotypes, and disobedience. Old photographs, symbolism, and appropriated images from explorer magazines, tourist books, and found or collected objects are utilized to evaluate Black, Negro, Afro-, African- identities in relationship to Whiteness, the desire to assimilate, or to be White. My work addresses how people are defined and self-define -- by their culture, their country, or their skin color. My work is a result of internal family racism, reactionary revolutions, interracial relationships, and miscegenation.