Shrouded Souls

“Shrouded Souls” is an evolutionary collection of works that focuses on how I have historically viewed myself through my struggles with depression and how I am evolving with my diagnosis. Each image or series of images taps into the feeling that I must hide parts of my ever-present and abundant personality while also learning to appreciate myself for who I am.

My combination of fluid movements enhanced by seemingly weightless fabrics and indirect, often moody, lighting create abstract scenes that convey messages of strength, fear, pain, loneliness, and love. As seen most poignantly in Black Trilogy: Fear, Apathy, and Strength, I used the juxtaposition of large cascades of fabric and a model on a smaller scale to illustrate how emotion can become bigger than us.

My work is emotional. I’m drawn to create as a method of therapy and hopeful that with each image, and soon video, I am able to give equity to a healthy inner dialogue.

Within this collection is the series “Black Trilogy”, a visual representation of the daily emotional journey black people experience.