Somewhere between Hope and mourning, 2023, two-screen video work, colour, sound 8.38 mins

Tropical languages of Longing, 2023, screen-printed wallpaper, (dimensions variable, site specific.) see more

'Somewhere Between Hope and Mourning' 2023 and 'tropical Languages of Longing' 2023, exist as an installation piece which looks at the history of the Caribbean.

The wallpaper takes the hibiscus flower, which is not indigenous to the Caribbean, but rather imported through ensalvement, and the peacock flower, which was used by enslaved women to induce abortion, and is often seen as a symbol of resistance. This wallpaper is meant to be a highly decorative piece of work, which for the unknown eye signifies an 'exotic symbol' of the Caribbean. But it hides within it a painful history which is often side-lined or completely ignored in favour of this idea of the 'tropical Caribbean'. 

'Somewhere Between Hope and Mourning' thinks through the experience of being a second/third generation immigrant, looking at grief from a removed stance as the gap between the present and the past, and here and there gets larger. Examining the loss of knowledge and understanding around the Caribbean and therefore highlighting the importance of telling and honouring these stories. 

This work has been displayed in: Can You Let Us In, 2023, University of Leeds Degree Show and FUAM Graduate Prize, 2023, Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, Leeds.