I examine archaeological materials and ecological transformations in the Americas including the Caribbean. By having an understanding of the landscape’s past traditions and its environmental history,  I bring to life my own parallel and intersecting universes.  I am interested in materials that have resonance with people, in both the personal and historical senses. By creating new instantiations of the human figure, I investigate ancestral relationships to each body and social ecosystem. These series of paintings are a collection of vintage national geographic magazines I have excavated into and encased in resin. The painting series are meditations into color, materials, and exchanges between worlds, like dreamscapes. The painting mediations are framed by a blue tarp background, symbolic of the ocean as well as a color ground. The materials I use (tropical flora, bodies in a field, architectural ruins, exotic birds, color, National Geographic magazines, belongings my mother ships to me from South Florida) engage with historic and imagined depictions of diasporic civilizations.