I am a conceptual artist and my image-based installations explore issues relating to international trade and commerce, farmer’s rights, race and human rights. My goal is to create work that is simultaneously attractive and repulsive. Though the subject of my work varies, the common thread is the disparity of access and economy, and the polarity of disgust and desire.

Combining photography, video and sound, I apply my background in architecture in a holistic approach to objects and space. My installations pay keen attention to detail and form and are the result of deep and immersive research processes.

I’m currently working on the second installation in my series called “Rice Riots” that looks at the 2007/2008 world rice shortage. This piece focuses on the riots that took place in Haiti when the price of rice was too high for the majority of the population. Haiti’s food shortage was confounded by its dependence on rice imports from the U.S. The installation is about the starvation due to market manipulation but even more devastating, the vanishing knowledge of farmer’s. In a generation or two, no one in Haiti will remember how to grow rice.

In 2009, I took a 3-month trip to the Middle East where I taught a photography workshop at a Jordanian refugee camp. The resulting body of work-in-progress looks at the stigma of refugee status and displacement by war. And in 2004, I went on a three-month trek through West Africa to learn firsthand about the cocoa farms in the region and their relationship to the modern-day chocolate industry. The resulting body of work, "Free Chocolate," a visual and material exposé of the world's love of chocolate, illustrates the mingled effects of desire, greed, and manipulation.

I continue to increase the scale of my work as I move towards my ultimate goal of creating installations at an architectural scale. I experiment with new materials and processes and ways to combine photography and installation—to distort and re-image the "image."

I graduated with a Bachelor of Architecture from Hampton University in Virginia in 1996 and a Masters in Science in Environmental Design from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena in 1999. I have exhibited in Los Angeles, the San Francisco Bay Area, Chicago, Minneapolis, Cleveland, Daytona Beach and Zurich, Switzerland.