Works in Progress
LOVE LETTER TO ZENZI, Goddard College, Port Townsend WA, 2016, Photo Credit: Laiwan
Love Letter to Zenzi
An interdisciplinary musical photo montage chronicling the journey of mutual empaths, a father and daughter, as they navigate a sordid 14 year custody battle and the spiritual lessons gleaned along the way. Utilizing song, speculative mystic scenarios, shapeshifting, and photographic images, it is a tome on forgiveness, healing, transformation, reconciliation, and the soul’s eternal evolutionary process.
Moon Going Down
What are the true ramifications of aging as an artist, educator, and middle class African American in contemporary American society? Set against the backdrop of Stanford, FL. during the Trayvon Martin murder, this ensemble driven work combines personal narratives, memorabilia, photos, video, poems, songs, and "the dozens" to create a mixed media theatrical presentation that explores issues of cultural identity and misappropriation, ageism, sexism, racism, parenthood, the disintegrating middle class, genocide, and what it means to be spiritually evolved in 21st century America.
Home to Obama
Released from prison soon after the election of President Obama, two black men find the road from the prison town bus station to their newly gentrified hometown of Harlem more astounding than they can bear. Issues of mass incarceration, displacement, generational oppression and reparations underscore a desperation and paranoia eventually substantiated with the election of Donald Trump. A comedic/dramatic fantasia on redeeming the black male voice.
An interdisciplinary musical photo montage chronicling the journey of mutual empaths, a father and daughter, as they navigate a sordid 14 year custody battle and the spiritual lessons gleaned along the way. Utilizing song, speculative mystic scenarios, shapeshifting, and photographic images, it is a tome on forgiveness, healing, transformation, reconciliation, and the soul’s eternal evolutionary process.
Moon Going Down
What are the true ramifications of aging as an artist, educator, and middle class African American in contemporary American society? Set against the backdrop of Stanford, FL. during the Trayvon Martin murder, this ensemble driven work combines personal narratives, memorabilia, photos, video, poems, songs, and "the dozens" to create a mixed media theatrical presentation that explores issues of cultural identity and misappropriation, ageism, sexism, racism, parenthood, the disintegrating middle class, genocide, and what it means to be spiritually evolved in 21st century America.
Home to Obama
Released from prison soon after the election of President Obama, two black men find the road from the prison town bus station to their newly gentrified hometown of Harlem more astounding than they can bear. Issues of mass incarceration, displacement, generational oppression and reparations underscore a desperation and paranoia eventually substantiated with the election of Donald Trump. A comedic/dramatic fantasia on redeeming the black male voice.
