Frequency Dreams

That was the question I was trying to answer between 2017 and 2022 — not in theory, but in paint. Thirty paintings. Three complete collections. A private five-year investigation into what it means to create a visual language for a genre that had not yet been fully claimed by abstract painting.

I listened to Sun Ra. I thought alongside Octavia Butler. I understood what Basquiat opened. But I was not looking for references. I was looking for my own version — what does Afrofuturism look like when it comes through me, abstractly, authentically, without apology.

The second collection removed the figures entirely and went inside the geometry — questioned everything I knew, learned the inherited systems on their own terms, understood them from the inside. Because you cannot be free of something you do not understand.

The third collection brought back the organic line work that has always been my most natural voice. The comfortable space. Where I breathe. Where I think. The first two collections were the journey into the geometry. The third was coming home to the line, knowing something I did not know when I left.

This entire process felt spiritual to me. I wanted to break some minds free. I believe the work does that — because freedom exists at a frequency the system cannot reach.