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OCTOBER 5 - DECEMBER 22

CulturalDC’s Mobile Art Gallery

Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum

Initially, we do not see the fruits of our labor and feel nothing is happening. With patience, self-trust, and care, the sprouts do come.  Nature allows me to slow down and treat the present moment as a gift.     

I have been planting seeds and practicing the patience to watch them grow. I believe people and gardens share a through-line, a natural connection to an essential element of life. While they germinate, they have to be nourished and cared for with consistent dedication, even when you can't see the roots quietly expanding under the surface.   

  I've started to exercise my green thumb: I craved to feel more connected to nature. It has been healing for me. The idea of connection extends to a spiritual relationship with the ground. In Bell Hook's Belonging, she says, "black people must reclaim a spiritual legacy where we connect our well-being to the Earth. This is a necessary dimension of healing."   

  I want you to feel Earth through my work so that a "grounding" can take place. Feeling the warmth beneath our feet brings a sense of freedom, self-awareness, and divine closeness. Each individual sculpture embodies a personality and inherent potential that is within all of us. Come, reflect, explore, and get a little dirty in an exercise of spiritual healing and emotional recovery.

I want to give another a huge thank you to Cultural DC and sponsors: Ayesha Seldon, Conrad Woody, Eriade Williams, Ashi Palmer, Smithonian’s Anacostia Community Museum, Anacostia Bid, and DCity Smokehouse.