My approach

My current work is rooted in a central question: How might we prepare for the beginning of the world?

Embedded within that question are two core beliefs: that the world as we know it is ending — and in many ways has already ended — and that we still possess the power to shape what comes next.

As an artist, cultural worker, facilitator, and experience designer, I approach this work through practices that reconnect people to memory, relationship, creativity, land, and collective imagination. Whether creating visual art, preserving community histories, teaching ancestral foodways and plant medicine, designing immersive learning experiences, or gathering stories from elders, I see each offering as part of a larger process of culture keeping and future-building.

My approach is guided by three pillars shaped by 5 values:

Sankofa — “Go Back and Fetch It”

Sankofa calls us to return to what has been discarded, obscured, or intentionally erased. This includes ancestral knowledge, practical skills, family stories, traditional ecological wisdom, and the hidden narratives embedded within our streets, landscapes, and built environments.

In practice, this means treating history and those who carry it not as static or obsolete, but as living instruction. “Back” can be our lived experiences, past generations, different technological eras or even before humans existed. I believe the past holds tools for survival, healing, and reimagining the future, and my work invites people to recover and carry those teachings forward. 

“What worldviews, recipes, styles, habits and common knowledge do you want to keep from the past three generations? What feels good to leave behind?”

Akoma Ntoso — “Connecting Hearts”

Akoma Ntoso centers relationship, compassion, vulnerability, and interdependence. It asks us to become more heart-forward in the ways we engage one another and to recognize that our greatest resource is each other.

I approach education, facilitation and community engagement as practices of care and collective stewardship. In my workshops and tours, I encourage dialogue, collaborative learning, and shared experiences. I work to create environments where trust, reflection, imagination, and self-governance can emerge.

“What is troubling you heart and how might a community of care help alleviate that for you?

Denkyem — The Crocodile

Denkyem symbolizes adaptability, survival, and transformation. As a creature that moves seamlessly between land and water, the crocodile reminds us that resilience requires flexibility and the ability to navigate changing conditions.

I carry this symbol as a guide for both personal and collective transformation. What I appreciate most about the crocodile is that across millennia of existence, it has never abandoned the essence of its form. A crocodile remains recognizable to itself. It adapts without surrendering its nature.

That principle deeply informs my work. I am interested in how we remain intact while moving through profound social, ecological, spiritual, and personal change.

Rather than positioning myself as the sole expert, I approach my work through shared inquiry, experimentation, and collective discovery. I invite participants into forms of citizen science — observing, testing, making, remembering, and learning together. Through loosely guided skillshares, ecological exploration, storytelling, visual art, nourishing meals, creative play, and collaborative study, I co-create spaces where people can reconnect with their own knowledge, imagination, creativity, and one another.

For me, adaptability is not simply about survival. It is about cultivating ways of living that allow us to remain connected to ourselves and each other amid uncertainty and transformation.

My work is particularly interested in food and medicine ways, waste and resource stewardship, sacred practice, home life and interiority, fugitivity and abolition, play, pleasure, and the everyday rituals that sustain collective life. Across each project, gathering, artwork, or experience, I return to a central question: How do we remain intact?

Ultimately, my approach is about helping people remember that even during periods of rupture and transition, we still have the capacity to build meaningful, connected, and life-affirming futures together.